Terrell, Robert H., 1914 - 50 The DAILY HERALD VOL 1. No. 296 BALTIMORE, MD., TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1918. 2 Cents a Copy Fourrth Liberty Loan Launched Auspiciously At Chicago Judge Terrell Makes Ringing Speech and Emmett J. Scott Sends Heartening Telegram Eighth Regiment Armory Packed Enthusiastic Colored Patriots Chicago, Ill. Sept. 29.--The Fourth Liberty Loan campaign launched her this afternoon at the Eigth Regiment Armory with tremendous success, with Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the Municipal Court, Washington, D.C., as the principal speaker. His address was one of the very best ever heard here and it brought forth an ovation at its close. 6,000 people were packed into the big auditorium and hundreds were turned away. A magnificent parade, embracing all of Chicago's organizations, preceeded the meeting at the Armory. The following telegram from Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, was read amid great applause. "Washington D. C., Sept. 28--I regret exceedingly my inability to be present at launching of Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign at Eighth Regiment Armory, owing to important official engagement that necessitates my presence here. Have been deeply impressed by splendid record being made by colored Americans generally along patriotic and other useful lines so beautifully consistent with the exceptionally fine record being made by colored soldiers in France--all tending to back up our Government in its irrevocable determination to win a war the outcome of which I believe will mean freedom and justice to all mankind. Every dollar loaned, every sacrifice made, every useful service performed will give to ourselves the rich conscientiousness of duty well done and will tend to win for colored Americans the fullest measure of American opportunity." President Demands Adoption Of Suffrage Amendment As War Measure Points Out That Position of United States Would Be Untenable In Eyes of World If Suffrage Denied Women (International News Service.) The President said: "Gentlemen of the Senate: "The unusual circumstances of world war in which we stand and are judged in the view not only of our own people and our own consciences but also in the view of all nations and peoples will, I hope, justify in your thought, as it does mine, the message i have come to bring you. I regard the concurrence of the Senate in the constitutional amendment proposing the extention of the suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war of humanity in which we are engaged. I have come to urge upon you the considerations which have led me to that conclusion. It is not only my privilege, it is also my duty to apprise you of every circumstance and element involved in this momentous struggle which seems to me to affect its very processes and its outcome. "This is a peoples war and the peoples thinking constitutes its atmosphere and morale, not the predilections of the drawing room or the political considerations of the caucus. If we be indeed democrats and wish to lead the world to democracy, we can ask other peoples to accept in proof of our sincerity and our ability to lead them whither they wish to be led nothing less persuasive and convincing than our actions. Our professions will not suffice. Verification must be forthcoming when verification is asked for--asked for in this particular matter. It is asked for by the anxious, expectant, suffering peoples with whom we are dealing and who are willing to put their destinies in some measure in our hands if they are sure that we wish the same things that they do. They are looking to the great, powerful, famous democracy of the west to lead them to the new day for which they have so long waited; and they [?] [?] IMMINENT --Almost Completely Surrounded The Negro American And the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign Emmett J. Scott Makes Ringing Appeal to the 12,000,000 Colored Citizens of Republic to Rally to Financial Aid of Nation Special to the The Daily Herald: Washington, D.C., Sept. 30 -- Emmett J. Scott, serving in the War Department as Special Assistant to the His fate is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Republic and he must join with it, loyally, whole- heartedly and to the finish, in every movement that will [?] 'jewel of liberty', we can make our dollars fight to gird up their loins for stronger efforts in trench and field. "The American Negro points with pride to a glorious record in the immediate past. A few typical instances will show the trend of the racial mind as to its duty to the nation that is the Negro's only Fatherland. In response to the three Liberty Loas appealn of the Secretary of the treasury the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association of Durham, N.C., a colored corporation, owned and officered entirely by colored men, subscribed for bonds to the amount of $125,000. The Mosic Templars of America, with headquarters at Little [?] The Negro American And the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign Emmett J. Scott Makes Ringing Appeal to the 12,000,000 Colored Citizens of Republic to Rally to Financial Aid of Nation Special to the Daily Herald: Washington, D. C., Sept. 30--Emmett J. Scott, serving in the War Department as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, has issued a ringing appeal to the 12,000,000 Negroes of the country in behalf of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Dr. Scott launched the Liberty Loan Campaign here among the colored people of the District of Columbia Saturday night at the Howard Theatre in the presence of a large and representative audience, and even at this early date, many subscriptions have been handed in during the evening. Dr. Scott said in part: "As the President says, this is the people's war. It is not a white man's war. It is not a black man's war. It is a war of all the people under the Stars and Stripes for the preservation of human liberty throughout the world. Civilization is in peril, and the natural rights of mankind are menaced for all time by the unholy aggressions of the Imperial German Government. The triumph of autocracy means the destruction of the Temple of Freedom which our fathers helped in 1776 to erect, and which their sons have sacrificed blood and treasure ever since to perpetuate. The failure of democracy in this mighty conflict will entail disaster upon humanity throughout generations beyond number. "The American Negro is beginning to realize that if the American white man is enslaved by reason of this Republic's inability to rout the Hun in the present struggle, the ultimate result will be his own re-enslavement and the loss of all that he has gained during the more than half-century since the Emancipation Proclamation His fate is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Republic and he must join with it, loyally, whole-heartedly and to the finish, in every movement that will add strength to the American arms in the death grapple with Germany. THIS COMMON PURPOSE MUST BE CONTENDED FOR BY A COMMON BROTHERHOOD. "Already, the Negro has responded promptly and cheerfully to the call for his MAN POWER, and three times since the declaration of war against the Imperial German Government the Negro has answered generously, readily and without stint to the call for his MONEY POWER. "Now comes a fourth call for financial aid and it is not doubted that the 12,000,000 free colored Americans, who wish to remain free, will again respond with the same or greater measure of liberality and enthusiasm that characterized them when prevous demands demands were made. Approximately, indeed, in view of the onward march of General Pershing's invincible crusaders on France's western front, the Fourth Liberty Loan is styled 'The Fighting Loan'. BLACK MEN ARE AMONG THESE INVINCIBLE CRUSADERS WITH GENERAL PERSHING. We who must remain at home are in duty bound to lend the limit of our aid to those who have gone abroad to bare their breasts to shot and shell in defense of our flag and the sacred ideals for which it stands. We cannot do this in a more effective way than to offer DOLLARS to sustain the Government--THE ONLY GOVERNMENT WE KNOW--and its fighting men while they are braving death to insure freedom and justice to all man kind. Even as they are making their bayonets fight in protection of the 'jewel of liberty', we can make our dollars fight to gird up their loins for stronger efforts in trench and field. "The American Negro points with pride to a glorious record in the immediate past. A few typical instances will show the trend of the racial mind as to its duty to the nation that is the Negro's only Fatherland. In response to the three Liberty Loas appealn of the Secretary of the treasury the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association of Durham, N. C., a colored corporation, owned and officered entirely by colored men, subscribed for bonds to the amount of $125,000. The Mosic Templars of America, with headquarters at Little Rock, Ar., subscribed to the amount of $100,000 and bought $1,000 worth of War Savings Stamps. The Improved Order of Elks, as an organization, has taken $10,000 worth of bonds, and a census of individuals shows that colored Elks have bought up to $150,000 worth of these securities. One patriotic colored man in Alabama purchased $20,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. The Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company, Atlanta, Ga., has purchased $80,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. Churches schools, societies of every kind, and hundreds of high-souled men and women of moderate means have invested in Libertty Bond many at a tremendous personal sacrifice, as a concrete expression of their devotion to world-wide democracy and their unflinching determination to make PEACE with VICTORY their goal. We may rest assured that the response of the colored millions to the fourth call for financial aid will be in keeping with our public-spirited and intensely patriotic rallies of the past. "The success of the Fourth Liberty Loan should overtop its predecessors in the volume of subscriptions accredited to the Negro race everywhere, and this should be the all-absorbing mission of colored ministers, editors, teachers, merchants, lawyers, doctors and speakers and workers, day by day and night by night, until that objective is gained. 'He gives twice who gives quickly.' Let us buy bonds-- and then buy MORE BONDS! This should be our slogan. "Every dollar loaned, every sacrifice made, every useful service performed will give to ourselves the rich conscientiounsness of duty well done and will tend to win for the Colored American everywhere the fullest measure of American opportunity." 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NOTICE! On aned after Monday Sept. 1st the price of The DAILY HERALD will be 2 cents per copy. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918 EDITORIAL Col. Roosevelt declares For Suffrage Based on Service Col. Roosevelt has enunciated a new principal in government. He declares that Suffrage should be based on service The man who will not render service in war and in peace, the Colonel declares, "has no right to vote." He believes suffrage should be given to ALL men and women who in peace and war perform service to the country. Twelve million black Americans are willing to stand with the former President in his demand that suffrage follow service and that service be rewarded by suffrage. A million and a half Negro men who during that period performed faithfully every duty of citizenship imposed upon them and who since the United states entered the world war have rendered loyal, faithful and zealous service to the government, have for thirty years been deprived of the ballot. And now in the very hour when three hundred thousand of them are shedding their blood and offering their lives that the principle of freedom and equal privileges may be secured to all full duty to the government and the nations struggling for freedom and democracy he will expect to share the rewards and benefits of that democracy which he helped to earn for the peoples of distant lands. WOMEN'S WAR WORK RED CROSS Edited By MRS. S. C. FERNANDIS. One thousand of the allotment is 2,500 garments is already at Headquarters, and auxiliaries are willingly and cheerfully taking their consignments. The Red Cross will form a section of the great Liberty Loan Parade on Saturday October 5. Notices have been sent to the various auxiliaries of the Branch, and there is all likelihood that they will be prepared to make the same fine showing as in the last parade. Food Conservation notes. The awarding of prizes and certificates to theworkers of the canning and Drying School Ceners will take place on Friday evening. Ot. 4, at 8 o'clock, at the Dunbar School, Jefferson and Caroline streets. Mr. Wm. Anderson, principal of the school, will preside and there will be addresses by Miss Kellor, of the Maryland State College, Mr. Mason A. Hawkins principal of the High School. Mr. C. C. Fitzgerald, Food Administrator, will award the prizes. The public is cordially invited. Preparation for Employment. The young colored girls of the city have the opportunity offered them to receive instruction in motor service. A car will be [fordarded] us as a sufficient number apply. Application must be made to C.G. Turnbull, 200 W. Saratoga Street. SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES BETHEL: Dr. Sampson Brooks preached two exceedingly good sermons on Sunday. His morning subject was, "In the Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land,"; his theme at the evening service was, "man Lost God's Image, Did he find it? Where and When?" EBENEZER-Rev. W. W. Beckett preached st the 11 o'clock service. It was an exceedingly interesting and instructive service. At the evening service the pastor, Rev. Charles E. Stewart preached. As usual the sterioptican was used to illustrate it. Negro soldiers and Heroism was the subject. SHARP STREET-"The Courage that wins" was Rev. Naylor's subject at the 11 o'clock service. Soial Free Baptist Church its pastor, Rev. James Cornish, and choir worshipped at the night service. Quite a large number of visitors were present. Excellent music was rendered by Sharp Street choir. MT. ZION M.E.--Sunday was the annual Men's Day at this Church. All three services were in charge of the men. A lovefeast was held at 10 o'clock, after which Rev. Williams An annual bazaar will be in progress at Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church until October 9th. Services were conducted at Phillip Memorial Chapel, Lombard street, 8 A. M., Holy Communion services at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School 2:30 P. M. Rev. Edgar C. Young, A. M. Minister, Miss Ida E. Chestnut; parish visitor. Mr. S. S. Moore, "The Do Right Man", 924 S. 18th street, made a trip to Pleasant Grove, N. C., to visit his uncle. He will return this week. Interesting services were held Sunday at Grace Memorial Church, 18th near Federal, Rev. W. T. Cornish, S. T. B. pastor. During the vacancy in the pulpit of Lombard street Presbyterian Church caused by the resignation of Rev. W. E. Griffin, D. D., the services are conducted by appointment at 11 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. Correction: Rev. H. Carnes should have appeared in Friday's issue instead of Rev. H. Covers pastor in connection with the Morris Brooks notice. Regular services were conducted Sunday at Neho Baptist Church Catherine street near 13th , Rev. C. M. Byrd pastor. Few people know the many lines of business and professions colored men and women in Philadelphia are engaged. Among our recent discoveries is Dr. Wm. P. Hardy the Chirordist, 1811 Reed [stret.] We met the learned Dr. and his madam and was shown through his beautiful home and operating room. He is a friend of the Herald. NOTICE! NOTICE!! All persons who bought Donaldson Medicines, New Life and Wonder oil at the Great State Wide Exhibition and Fair of the Colored People in Salisbury, Easton and Christertown Maryland, inquire of your druggist for these goods with sample bottle os printing you receive from Dr. Donaldson. Go to Tolson Drug store Chestertown and Salisbury also have them in stock already or you can get them by mail. Write 1431 South street, Philadelphia. All goods guaranteed. or money refunded. tf Dr. R. R. Robinson of Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday in after sermon avenue. The meeting was largely attended, owing to the fact that preparations were being made for their annual sermon which will be preached Sunday evening next at Bethel A. M. E. Church, by Rev. W. Sampson Brooks. DEATHS AND FURNERAL Rev. Mitchell's Sister Passes Away. remarks declared the Suffrage Based on Service Col. Roosevelt has enunciated a new principle in government. He declares that Suffrage should be based on service. The man who will not render service in war and in peace, the Colonel declares, "has no right to vote." He believes suffrage should be given to ALL men and women who in peace and war perform service to the country. Twelve million black Americans are willing to stand with the former President in his demand that suffrage follow service and that service be rewarded by suffrage. A million and a half Negro men who during that period performed faithfully every duty of citizenship imposed upon them and who since the United States entered the world war have rendered loyal, faithful and zealous service to the government, have for thirty years been deprived of the ballot. And now in the very hour when three hundred thousand of them are shedding their blood and offering their lives that the principle of freedom and equal privileges may be secured to all the peoples of the world high and mighty Senators repre-[?] [?] of the states to [?] they are ac- accredited stand in the way and refuse to grant suffrage to women of their own race because of the grant must also include black women. With these men the service being voluntarily, even eagerly rendered by black women count for nothing. The services of their husbands, sons and brothers count for nothing and is entitled to no rewardsave abuse, villification and slander. Col. Roosevelt sounds the key note. Let service be the test and basis of suffrage. Let the slacker be shown no consideration be he black or white, man or woman. If he shirks fighting and refuses to work cut hi off from the privilege of voting; if he is able to buy Liberty bonds or Thrift Stamps and has not bought and refuses to buy mark him in the slacker list and bar him from suffrage. But if he is loyal and fights for his county or remains at home and renders receive[?] A car will be fordarded us as soon as a sufficient number apply. Application must be made to C. G. Turnbull, 200 W. Saratoga street. SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES BETHEL: Dr. W. Sampson Brooks preached two exceedingly good sermons on Sunday. HIs morning subject was, "In the Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land,"; his theme at the evening service was, "Man Lost God's Image, Did he Find it? Where and When?" EBENEZER—Rev. W. W. Beckett preached at the 11 o'clock service. It was an exceedingly interesting and instructive service. At the evening service, the pastor, Rev. Charles E. Stewart preached. As usual the sterioptican was used to illustrate it. Negro Soldiers and Heroism was the subject. SHARP STREET—"The Courage that Wins" was Rev. Naylor's subject at the 11 o'clock service. Social Free Baptist Church its pastor, Rev. James Cornish, and choir worshipped at the night service. Quite a large number of visitors were present. Excellent music was rendered by Sharp Street choir. MT. ZION M. E. —Sunday was the annual Men's Day at this Church. All three services were in charge of the men. A lovefeast was held at 10 o'clock, after which Rev. Williams preached a special sermon to men. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the big occasion was held, a platform meeting. Several prominent speakers were in attendance. At night a stranger filled the pulpit. PERSONAL MENTION. Dean Kelley Miller, of Howard University spent the week end in the city. Miss Alberta Holliday of Havre de Grace, Md., ns in the city visiting friends. Miss Helene Holland, of Philadelphia, Pa., is visiting Miss Viola Hill of 506 Prestman street, over the week. Mrs. Georgia Crows of Appomatox, Va., who has been in the city during the past fortnight, visiting her brother, Mr. Jas. Collins, W. Lee street, left for her home yesterday afternoon. BUSINESS MEN'S EXCHANGE HOLD MONTHLY MEETING The regular monthly meeting of the Colored Business Men's Exchange was held on Thursday last in the rooms of their building, 1310 Penna. [???] eries is Dr. Wm. P. Hardy the C[??]ordist, 1811 Reed stret. We met the learned Dr. and his madam and was shown through his beautiful home and operating room. He is a friend of the Herald. NOTICE! NOTICE!! All persons who bought Donaldson Medicines, New Life and Wonder oil at the Great State Wide Exhibition and Fair of the Colored People in Salisbury, Easton and Christertown Maryland, inquire of your druggist for these goods with sample bottle of printing you receive from Dr. Donaldson. Go to Tolson Drug store Chestertown and Salisbury also have them in stock already or you can get them by mail. Write 1461 South street, Philadelphia. All goods guaranteed. or money refeunded. tf Dr. R. R. Robinson of Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday in after sermon avenue. The meeting was largely attended, owing to the fact that preparations were being made for their annual sermon which will be preached Sunday evening next at Bethel A. M. E. Church, by Rev. W. Sampson Brooks. DEATHS AND FUNERAL Rev. Mitchell's Sister Passes Away. Miss Ada Anderson, the sister of Rev. A. J. Mitchell, pastor of Ames Memorial M. E. Church, died yesterday at the home of her brother, 1363 N. Calhoun street, after an illness of several months. Rev. Mitchell only recently went to Ocala, Fla., the home of the deceased, and brought her here for treatment. The funeral will take place from Ames Memorial Church, Carey and Baker streets, tomorrow at 2 P. M. Burial will be in Mt. Auburn cemetery. Paul H. Osborne. The funeral of Paul H. Osborne, who died on Sunday last at his late residence, 543 Lafayette avenue, was from there this afternoon 1 o'clock. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sarah Osborne. Interment was in Mt. Zion cemetery. Official Death List September 30, '18. Harris, Sophia, Johns Hopkins Hospital, age 67 years. Henson, Geo. S., 2128 Morris Str., age 2 years. Reaver, Ruth, 1303 May street, age 15 years. Turner, Edward, 1635 N. Calhoun street, age 2 years. Walter, John, 639 Cider alley, age 60. stre[et?] A [??] rtagula[??] South [??] The G[??] 1906 Sou[th?] their new [???] Among the [??] business[?] men w[??] The Herald [Bur??] Hammon, 1300 [??] Cigar 520 S. 20th so handle The [??] dricks, 1910 So[??] Carns, 1235 Ca[??] Harrington, B[??] Cap Burton Ju[nction??] bridge; Mrs. B[??] Bainbrid[??] you kindly. Let us have [??] columns. Wheeler, R[??] age 39 years. White, Jess[??] Johns[??] Hopkins Hosp[ital?] COUNCIL OF [???] B[USINESS?] Woman's Sec[?] The Woma[n?] cil of Defen[?] the Fourth [??] Saturday, de[?] thewomen's [??] of bonds to [??] "Over There [??] made in con[??] Day" which [??] last. Miss [??] chairman of the Committee, made the subscription for the Council. Up to date this is the largest subscription by any Negro organization for bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan. The affiliated clubs of the organization will be urged by the Council to subscribe to Bonds in large quantities. The Spirit of '18 The World Cry food! Cultivate the Soil into [??] seem [??] accor[??] from [??] NEG[??] Ha[??] Speci[??] Bake[??] Hutc[??] work[??] Scott[??] State[??] Ham[??] over [??] to th[e?] write[?] the v[?] Mr. [?] traito[?] diers[?] tiona[?] vocat[ion?] soldie[r?] The Evening Star with Sunday Morning edition WEATHER Fair and not quite so cold tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 61, at 2 p.m. today; lowest, 37, at 4 a.m. today. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday's Net Circulation 95,905 Closing New York Stocks, Page 23. No. 28,114. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1921 - TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. TWO CENTS. REICHSBANK GIVEN UNTIL APRIL 22 TO TRANSFER ITS GOLD Reparations Commission to Seize Holdings Unless Instructions Are Followed Lloyd George to Meet with Briand to Confer German Government Would Have to Get Authority From Allies to Dispose of Reserve By the Associated Press PARIS, April 19 - The allied reparations commission announced today that it had given Germany until April 22 to transfer the gold holdings of the reichsbank, the German imperial bank, to the Coblenz and Cologne branches of the bank. If Germany refuses to comply with the ultimatum, the commission, it states, will require the immediate delivery of the gold to the commission itself. In the event of the transfer of the gold to the branches named, the sum may continue to figure as part of the balance of the reichsbank, the commission explains, but the German government would have no right to dispose of it without obtaining previous authority from the commission to do so. The British prime minister, Mr. Lloyd George, and Premier Briand have agreed to confer before the next meeting of the supreme council of the allies, but the time and place of the conference has not yet been determined, it was announced today. The details of the meeting will depend largely on the ability of Mr. Lloyd George to absent himself from London. Protests Customs Regime The new customs regime established in the occupied territory of Germany, under the interallied Rhineland commission's ordinance of April 9 "constitutes a new and flagrant violation of the Versailles treaty," says a note transmitted by the German government to the council of ambassadors here. Germany has given up the idea of finding an intermediary to transmit her reparations offers, according to the latest reliable information reaching Paris. The German government will decide on new proposals today and communicate them Wednesday or Thursday either directly to the allies or to the reparations commission. They will be published in Berlin immediately after their delivery. The proposals, it is understood, are a repetition of those upon which the German delegation finally decided in London on March 7. Reparations Problem Up A mixed military and civil "general staff" made up of Marshal Foch., Maj. Gen. E.A.L. Buat and Gen. Wy U.S. IGNORING OF WILSON NEGOTIATIONS RESENTED French Newspapers Point to Constitutional Right of American President to Treat with Foreign Nations BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright 1921 PARIS, France, April 19 - Beneath the urbanites of official reassurances resentment is growing in France at the disposition in the United States to ignore all the results of President Wilson's many months of negotiation with the allies. It is generally pointed out in private conversations and in newspapers that Mr. Wilson, as President of the United States, had a constitutional right to negotiate with the allies, and while it is also recognized that the Senate has the constitutional right to refuse ratification, many French thinkers feel that this tendency on the part of the Senate to overturn the President's diplomatic work will end in making it extremely difficult for the United States to carry on negotiations with foreign nations which never can feel sure that the promises made them will be kept. L'Europe Nouvelle cites several passages from page 707, volume 1, of Bryce's American Commonwealth, which are far from flattering to the United States in this respect. The moderate Paris Midi, which is generally well disposed toward the United States, writes: "The American people are great enough in other respects so that one may feel free to point out how inelegant is this manner of treating other people. For it is beside the point to assert that an American President is not qualified to conclude treaties by himself. The same is practically true of the negotiations of all nations. However, it is not the custom of other nations to slip out at the last minute after having allowed their representative to negotiate an understanding in their name. Lord Bryce indicates that this American tradition holds because the United States, after all, can get along without the rest of the world. "But this is now changing. So long as the United States was a purely colonial country it could with impunity practice diplomatic customs proper to young societies and speak frankly of rudimentary morality. But today the United States wants to play a part in the big world. Since the time of Roosevelt it has figured as a great power in the European sense. It is time, then, that Americans give up the habit of entering the parlor in their shirtsleeves and spitting on the carpet. Otherwise, sooner or later they will suffer a mishap." The question thus raised is undoubtedly serious and likely to have an effect on future negotiations between the United States and other countries. NOTED SUFFRAGIST IS RIVER VICTIM Former Washington Woman, Mrs. Jessie Harding Stubbs Mackaye, Drowned. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 19 - The body of a woman found yesterday in the East river, off Astoria, was definitely identified today as that of Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs Mackaye, suffragist and writer, who disappeared yesterday while with her husband in the Grand Central station, after threatening suicide. The identification was made by Charles S. Whitaker, an old friend of the family, who later telephone Mr. Mackaye at his home that the body was that of his wife. The suffragist's husband directed Mr. Whitaker to look after the funeral arrangements, and he told the police that while he had not seen the body himself, he had no doubt in his mind as to Mr. Whitaker's identification. The police then announced the identification as official. ADMITS HE SHOT BARBER SCHNURR Niffin, Ex-Canadian Soldier, Says he and Three Sought a Druggist John Walter Niffin, seventeen years old, a chauffeur, who roomed at 913 M street, under arrest in the second police precinct, this afternoon confessed that he shot and killed Frederick Schnurr, fifty-nine years old, a barber, at 3rd and P streets, the night of January 22, according to the police. Niffin, a native of Canada, says he served two enlistments in the Canadian army during the war with Germany and that he came here seven months ago. The night of the homicide, he is said to have told the police, he and three companions took an automobile from near 9th street and Grant place and went to 3d and P streets for the purpose of holding up Dr. P. P. Withers, druggist, believing he usually carried large sums of money from his store to his home at 119 Bates street. MUNICIPAL COURT REFERS CASE TO RENT COMMISSION Judge Terrell Takes Official Notice of Decision Upholding Ball Act MANY TENANTS EXPECTED TO SUE FOR RECOVERY Legal Opinion Differs as to Collection of Penalties and Enforcement of Law Judge Robert H. Terrell of the Municipal Court, who is hearing the landlord and tenant cases, today took judicial notice of the Supreme Court decision upholding the validity of the Ball rent act. On motion of Attorney Bertrand Emerson jr., for the tenant, the court referred a possession case to the rent commission. David E. Buckingham had sought to evict J. C. Flood from premises 2114 and 2116 14th street northwest, and when the case came up for hearing today Attorney Emerson filed a plea to the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court, pointing out that the Ball rent law is in full effect and all controversies thereunder must first be passed on by the rent commission. Rights of Tenant Discussed How does the decision of the United States Supreme Court affect the tenant who has been required to pay additional rental to retain possession? Can he recover the excess payment, and where shall he begin the necessary legal proceedings? Attorney George E. Edelin, who, with Capt. Julius I. Peyser, represented a number of tenants before the rent commission and in the courts, today expressed the opinion that excess payments of rent may be recovered under the Ball act only by those tenants who submitted their cases to the rent commission and there obtained a determination in their favor. The recovery is to date back to the time of the filing of the complaint. If the tenant paid the increased demand even under protest and did not submit the matter to the rent commission, the lawyer said, he may not recover under the act. The law provides, he pointed out, that where excess payment has been collected after a determination by the rent commission, the tenant may ask the rent commission in his name to bring suit in the Municipal Court for double the amount of the excess, to which shall be added an attorney's fee of $50. Decision Against Landlord As the Ball act makes the finding of fact by the commission final and provides an appeal to the Court of Appeals on a question of law only, it would seem, the lawyer suggested, Political cartoon on President Harding providing aid to a boys' swimming pool D.A.R. TO ACQUIRE YORKTOWN, VA., SITE Scene of Surrender of Cornwallis to Be Preserved as Reservation Yorktown, Va., the scene of the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington, as a national historic reservation, for which the Daughters of the American Revolution have been working for a long time, came within the grasp of the organization today. A number of owners of property on which the historic forts, breastworks, and trenches are located have offered to cede their holdings to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Coming as a complete surprise, after a report in the morning urging the members to get behind Congress on a bill to purchase the site the congress immediately suspended its rules long enough to pass a motion that a Peace Resolution to Be Taken Up by Senators Thursday The Knox peace resolution will be taken up by the Senate foreign relations committee next Thursday, it was announced today, with a view to a prompt favorable report. The date for Senate consideration is indefinite, as it is the plan to take up first the emergency tariff bill, and the length of time the finance committee will spend in considering that measure is uncertain. PRESIDENT HARDING GOES TO NEW YORK Will Deliver Address at Unveiling of Bolivar Statue ALIEN RESTRICTION BILL IS REPORTED Chairman Johnson Urges Limit on Immigration Be Fixed at Once Reporting the immigration restriction bill to the House today, Chairman Johnson of the immigration committee urged its immediate passage, declaring that the causes calling for its enactment by the last Congress still existed. Except for the effective days, the new measure is identical with that passed by the Sixty-sixth Congress and given a pocket veto by President Wilson. It restricts immigration from Europe to 3 per cent of the number of foreign-born persons of such nationalities in the United States at the time of the 1910 census and would be effective from next COMBINING MONEY STRIKES INDUSTRY IS LAUCK CHARGE Says 12 New York Financial Institutions Head War on Rail Workers INTERALLIED GROUP DEFEATED THE FARMERS Many Instances Told of Manipulations to Bring Labor Stagnation By the Associated Press CHICAGO, April 19 - Charges that a "capital combine," headed by twelve New York financial institutions, inaugurated a policy of nation-wide-shut-downs, was made today before the United States Railroad Labor Board by W. Jett Lauck, economist for the unions, which are fighting any reduction in hearings before the labor board. Mr. Lauck named about 100 men who through interlocking directorships, he claimed, centered in these dozen institutions control of the majority of the country's important railroads, and of basic raw materials, He charged that: "This interrelated capital group deliberately deflated the farmers and then undertook, by precipitating industrial stagnation, to deflate labor." The railroads, he asserted, were the chosen vehicle for this labor drive. Lay-offs of repair men on railroads in recent months, he charged, were made deliberately, while much of the repair work was let to outside companied, who charged the roads about twice what the same repairs would have cost in their own shops. One purpose, he said, was to get this portion of railroad labor out of government jurisdiction by forcing it to work for the outside concerns. These concerns, he said, were largely under this same financial control as the roads. Long Document Offered. The document that Mr. Lauck presented made about 125,000 words. It was prepared by the American Federation of Labor bureau of research, railway employe's department, and entitled "Human Standards and Railroad Policy." The dozen New York financial institutions as named were: Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, First National Bank, Equitable Trust Company, J. P. Morgan & Co., Guaranty Trust Company, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, American Surety Company, National Surety Company, Mechanics and Metals National Bank, National City Bank, New York Trust Company and Chase National Bank. ed, it was announced today. The details of the meeting will depend largely on the ability of Mr. Lloyd George to absent himself from London. Protest Customs Regime. The new customs regime established in the occupied territory of Germany, under the interallied Rhineland commission's ordinance of April 9 "constitutes a new and flagrant violation of the Versailles treaty," says a note transmitted by the German government to the council of ambassadors here. Germany has given up the idea of finding an intermediary to transmit her reparations offers, according to the latest reliable information reaching Paris. The German government will decide on the new proposals today and communicate them Wednesday or Thursday either directly to the allies or to the reparations commission. They will be published in Berlin immediately after their delivery. The proposals, it is understood, are a repetition of those upon which the German delegation finally decided in London on March 7. Reparations Problem Up. A mixed military and civil "general staff" made up of Marshal Foch, Maj. Gen, E. A. L. Buat and Gen. Weygand and Louis Loucheur, minister of liberated regions; Paul Tirard, French high commissioner of the Rhineland, and M. Seydoux, who represented France as financial expert at the Brussels conference, met yesterday and listened to several financial, economic and technical experts on the reparations problem. The utmost secrecy was maintained concerning the meeting, but a semi-official communication issued later said that similar conferences would take place "definitely to decide upon and elaborate a general plan for co-ercive measures, both economic and military, eventually to be enforced against Germany, in order to submit the plan in details to the allied governments before May 1." Little Reparation Paid. Andre Lefevre, former minister of finance, in the course of a debate in the chamber of deputies on the question of the reconstruction of the devestated regions of France, declared that two years after the cessation of hostilities Germany had paid scarcely 2 per cent of the amount of the ruin she had caused. M. Daubigny, the reporter for the commission on the devastated regions, said the war sufferers up to the present had received 15,000,000,000 francs in cash or kind, equaling about 3,000,000,000 francs of the 1914 money value. The total claimed, he said, was between 34,000,000,000 and 35,000,000,000 francs at the 1914 value. Germans Get Demand. Gold Must Be Deposited as Security For Reparations. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 18.-The reparations commission has verbally notified the president of the German war burdens commission that the gold reserves of the reichsbank and other German issuing banks must be deposited before May 1, either in Cologne or Coblenz as security for reparations it was semi-officially announced today. The reparations commission required that a pledge be given not to dispose of the gold to other creditors of Germany without the permission of the commission. The German government, it was semi-officially stated, had declared the demand to be unacceptable under any circumstances. The total gold holdings of the reichsbank, on April 7, as shown by the bank's statement for that date, were 1,091,602,000 marks. Negro Wins Election. PALATKA, Fla., April 19-E. E. Nottage, a negro, was elected alderman from the sixth ward in the municipal election here yesterday, defeating C. E. Porter, a white man. The election of Nottage places two negros on the council, the other member also being from the sixth ward, a district populated almost entirely by negroes. Revolvers and Shotguns Issued Post Offices to Guard the Mails Postal employes throughout the United states have been armed with ARmy revolovers and repeating shotguns and 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition, through special ??rangement with the War De???tment, it was learned today. The arms and ammunition have be?? issued to the post offices of the ??untry, including the Washinto?? city post office, and immedia?? steps will be taken at all the of????s to train the employes in the ?se of the arms against possible ?ail bandits. Arming and training of the postal ???rs actively in charge of be carried out under the instruction of employes who served in the military service of the United state during the world war. No steps will be left undone to put the entire postal service in an active state of defense, so that the mails of the country may be protected from the mail robbers who have recently made inroads on the mails. The railway mail service has been completely armed. Serious consideration is being given by the department ?o recommending to Congress an amendment to the penal code providing for more severe sentence for mail robbers, it was announce? today. Former Washington Woman, Mrs. Jessie Harding Stubbs Mackaye, Drowned. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 19—The body of a woman found yesterday in the Wast river, off Astoria, was definitely identified today as that of Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs Mackaye, suffragist and writer, who disappeared yesterday whole with her husband in the Grand Central station, after threatening suicide. The identification was made by Charles S. Whitaker, an old friend of the family, who later telephoned Mr. Mackaye at his home that the body was that of his wife. The suffragist's husband directed Mr. Whitaker to look after the funeral arrangements, and he told police that while he had not seen the body himself, he had no doubt in his mind as to Mr. Whiaker's identification. The police then announced the identification as official. MARRIED IN CHEVY CHASE. Mrs. Mackaye Also Picketed White House in Suffrage Campaign. Washington friends of Mrs. Mackaye who, with her husband, lived in the Ethelhurst apartments here until about a year ago, said she had never shown a morose disposition during her residence here. "She had a beautiful philosophy of life," said Mrs. Gilson Gardiner, one of her intimate acquaintances, "and if is difficult to believe that she would threaten suicide." Fled From Husband. According to New York dispatches, Mrs. Mackaye had been ill for sometime. She was standing with her husband at one of the train gates in Grand Central station, yesterday afternoon, when she suddenly announced, "I am going to kill myself." A moment later she fled form her husband and was lost in the crowd. After a frantic search Mr. Mackaye went to the Charles street police station , nearest his home, at 145 West 12th street, and asked that a general alarm be sent out, which was done. Mrs. Mackaye, the daughter-in-law of a former governor of Kansas, was forty-five years old. She was widely known among suffragists as Jesse Hardy stubbs. Coming to wAshington from Chicago about nine years ago, she threw herslef into the suffrage fight with much vigor. She made one of the first street speeches for votes for women ever delievered in washington by a woman. She also assisted in picketing the White House, but was not among the militants sentenced to the jail and workhouse. For a long time she was the national publicity representative of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Left Here Years ago. Her marriage to Benton Mackaye. a brother of Percy Mackaye, the playwright, was solemnized at the hone of Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Brook, in Chevy Chase, June 2, 1915. Mr. Mackaye was a protege of Gifford Pinchot , and held his first government position here in the forestry bureau of the Department of Agriculture. Later he was with the Labor and Interior departments. He is a graduate of Harvard. After leaving Washington , about a year ago, the Mackayes went to Milwaukee, subsequently taking up a residence in New York. NAMES SENT TO SENATE. Aldridge, White and Symes Nominated by President. nominations by President Harding transmitted today to the senate from the White House included George W. Aldridge, to be collector of customs of the tenth district, New York; Albert B. White of Parkersburg, W. Va., to be collector of internal revenue, district of West Virginia, and John Foster Symes of Colorado, to be United states attorney for the district of Colorado. Niffin, Ex-Canadian Soldier, Says He and Three Sought a Druggist. John Walter Niffin, seventeen years old, a chauffeur, who roomeda t 913 M street, under arrest in the second police precinct, this afternoon confessed that he shot and killed Frederick Schnurr, fifty-nine years old, a barber, at 3d and P streets, the night of January 22, according to the police. Niffin, a native of Canada, says he served two enlistments in the Canadian army during the war with germany and that he came here seven months ago. The night of the homicide, he is said to have told the police, he and three companions took an automobile from near 9th street and Grant plave and went to 3d and P streets for the purpose of holding up Dr. P. P. Withers, druggist, believing he usually carried large sums of money from his store to his home at 119 Bates street. The mugged the druggist, the prisoner is said to have stated, and concluded they would hold up the barber. The druggist and barber had started form their places of buisness together, but had separated just before the latter was shot in the head and instantly killed in front of 1907 1st street. Niffin, according to the police, said he did not intend to shoot the barber, but merely drew the weapon for the purpose of frightening him, The weapon, he declared, was accidentally discharged. Police Hunt Rewarded. Policemen Bremmerman and Frayne of the second precinct arrested the boy in his room about 5 o'clock. They had been working on the case ever since the crime was committed, and, it is stated, they succeeded in learning the identify of certain persons who were in the so-called "murder car." Nifflin talked freely of the killing, and it is likely that additional arrests will be made. Police hope they will be able to obtain information relative to the holdup of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Mervis, 1429 T street, at the point of a pistol some time before Schnurr was slain, Mrs. Mervis' pocketbook being found in the hedge in front of the barber shop Schnurr conducted. Dr. Withers Escaped. Dr. Withers and Mr. Schnurr left their places of business about 11 o'clock the night of the murder, and walked part the way home together, Dr. Withers leaving him and going east in the direction of his home. It was about the time they separated, it is alleged, that the men in the car lost sight of the druggist, their intended victim, and overtook Schnurr. Investigation of the affair will be continued, and the police feel reasonably certain they will capture all members of the party in the "murder car" the night the tragedy was enacted. Today's News in Paragraphs Senator Ball introduces D. C. car line merger bill and measure to regulate pawnbrokers. Page 1 Body of Mrs. Jessie H. S. Mackaye, former D. C. sufferage worker, found in East river. Page 1 French resent disposition in U. S. to ignore Wilson peace negotiations. Page 1 Transfer of gold to branches of Reichs- bank ordered by allies. Page 1 President Harding leaves for New York. Page1 Municipal Court refers cases to rent commission in taking cognizance of Ball act decision Page 1 German ex-royalty attend funeral of Augusta Victoria at Potsdam. Page 2 Argentina's reply to U. S. note on ship strike said to be unfavorable. Page 3 Daniels credits North sea mine barrage with ending U-boat terror. Page 3 Work of visiting nurses praised a meet- ing to boost $50,000 campaign. Page 7 Soviet Russia orders sale of art treasures and creation of state fund to buy food. Page 9 Disorder follows killings in Italian party conflicts. Page 13 Two grades of milk provided in proposed law. Page 13 Postmaster Chance announces when to mail letters to get best possible speed service. Page 13 President strongly favors national memorial for heroes, he writes Mrs. Dimock. Page 13 Viviani urges commercial co-operation between U.S. and France. Page 13 Georgetown citizens protest discontinuance of coal shipments by Navy over C. and O. canal. Page 13 Stockholders back Gary in and future labor conflicts. Page 17 "Paul Revere" rides to Lexington over route made famous 146 years ago to- day. Page 18 and where shall he begin the necessary legal proceedings? Attorney George E. Edelin, who, with Capt. Julius I. Peyser, represented a number of tenants before the rent commission and in the courts, today expressed the opinion that excess payments of rent may be recovered under the Ball act only by those tenants who submitted their cases to the rent commission and there obtained a determination in their favor. The recovery is to date back to the time of the filing of the complaint. If the tenant paid the increased demand even under protest and did not submit the matter to the rent commission, the lawyer said, he may not recover under the act. The law provides, he pointed out, that where excess payment has been collected after a determination by the rent commission, the tenant may ask the rent commission in his name to bring suit in the Municipal Court for double the amount of the excess, to which shall be added an attorney's fee of $50. Decision Against Landlord As the Ball act makes the finding of fact by the commission final and provides an appeal to the Court of Appeals on a question of law only, it would seem, the lawyer suggested, that the Municipal Court would be bound to render a decision against the landlord for the amount asked for in the tenant's suit. Of the amount recovered under the law the tenant gets only the excess rental paid by him. The other portion goes into the United States Treasury. If the amount of excess is beyond $250 it may be necessary, it was suggested, for the tenant to wait until June 1 to begin his proceedings for recovery. The law makes the Municipal Court the only tribunal cognizant of violations under it, and the maximum jurisdiction of the tribunal is now fixed at $500, and doubt is expressed if a suit under the Ball act to recover $300, which, doubled, would exceed the court's jurisdiction, may be maintained there. June 1 the jurisdiction of the court is raised to $1,000, which would permit of suits up to $500 excess rentals being heard. Increased Rents Question. Tenants whose rents were increased by the rent commission and who succeeded in retaining possession by appealing from a judgement of the Municipation he thought, would be up to the the decision of yesterday will not help them. The determination of the rent commission in favor of the landlord also dates back to the time of filing of complaint and the landlord may recover possession, it is claimed, unless the tenant settles the arrearage, by bringing proceedings in a court for non-payment of rent. Mr. Edelin was not willing to express an opinion on how the penal section of the act for flaunting the determination of the rent commission is to be enforced. The commission itself is given no power of enforcing any of its rulings or punishing any violations of the act. The question he thought would be up for the United States attorney or corporation counsel. Tenants Besiege Rent Board. Aroused by the prospect of obtaining large refunds of money paid by them in excess of rentals fixed under the Ball act, scores of tenants today besieged the offices of the District Rent Commission in the Hoe building, to learn what proceedings to take against their landlords. A sudden increase in number of new petitions filed by tenants who seek to benefit by the sustained authority of the commission was noted by the small force of employees. It was estimated that the day's total of rental petitions filed would reach seven or eight times the daily average for the past month or so, when the constitutionality of the Ball act was in doubt. The rent commissioners are planning what steps may be necessary in the way of securing additional office and legal help to accommodate the flood of work expected to present itself as a result of the court's action. It is expected that the White House will soon appoint a new commissioner to fill the vacancy left by Capt. Oyster's transfer to the board of District Commissioners. About 5,000 Rents Fixed. The commission has no way of finding how many landlords have refused to abide by the decisions of the rent commission, except as tenants apply for court action to secure refunded excess rent. Commissioner Sinclair estimated, however, that probably 4,000 or 5,000 rents have been fixed by the commission during its existence. Commissioner Taylor expressed the personal opinion that perhaps 75 per cent of these cases have been ignored by landlords. To Fight Extension of Act. Real estate men and builders are expected to seek to frustrate any attempt to extend the life of the rent commission after October 22 next, the date the Ball act automatically expires. Until then it is the general feeling that the law must be respected. Reports that the court's action in upholding the rent commission would have the effect of causing an immediate cessation of all building of rental property in Washington were discountenanced today by Harry L. Rust, president of the real estate board. He said, however, that it undoubtably would have a deterrent effect on constrution of rental buildings here. "There are a good many buildings Continued on Page 2, Column 1. YORKTOWN, VA., [???] Scene of Surrender of Cornwallis to Be Preserved as Reservation. Yorktown, VA., the scene of the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington, as a national historic reservation, for which the Daughters of the American Revolution have been working for a long time, came within the grasp of the organization today. A number of owners of property on which the historic forts, breastworks and trenches are located have offered to cede their holdings to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Coming as a complete surprise, after a report in the morning urging the members to get behind Congress on a bill to purchase the site the congress immediately suspended its rules long enough to pass a motion that a committee be appointed by the president general immediately to confer with the donors and with full power to accept the gift. Offer Conditional. Mrs. John L. Buell of Connecticut, on behalf of Mrs. Harry A. Smith, who stood beside her on the platform, and other owners of Yorktown property, made the offer on the condition that the lands involved to be inclosed within a fence, that they be kept clean and in good condition, be open to the public at all times without charge, that the streets running at right angles be kept open, and that in the event of the failure of the society to comply with the conditions the lands shall revert to the donors. A similar proposition was made in the name of Capt. George A. Low. By a coincidence the offer to the society came on the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. It was stated that the offer does not in any way affect the bill which the members early in the session was asked to urge on their congressmen, as the lands do not include all of the points of historic interest. Morning Session. The morning session was opened by pronouncement of tthe invocation [???N] Royalty [A?] Kaiserin's Bier Funeral Services Held in Potsdam–Former Emperor Greatly Depressed. By the Associated Press. POTSDAM, April 19,–Amid the lolling of bells, which marked the solemn hour, funeral services for Augusta Victoria, former German empress, were held today in this the royal residence suburb of Berlin, which had witnessed so many scenes of splendor in the departed days of Hohenzollern rule. Over the simple coffin in the mausoleum, or antique temple, in the Potsdam palace grounds, where the services were held, had been raised the familiar yellow standard of the ex-empress, and at its foot stood the four sons of the former royal couple who were free to attend the services. Lacking was the presence of the husband, the former emperor, and of the eldest son of the family, former Crown Prince Frederick William, exiles in Holland. Generals at Bier Led by the clergy and officers of the ex-empress' own regiments, the funeral cortage left Wild Park, the Potsdam railway station, near which the body had been guarded overnight by faithful mourners after its arrival by special train from Doorn, the ex-emperor's present home in Holland, and proceeded shortly before 10 o'clock for the mausoleum in the palace grounds, a mile and one half distance. Four black plumed royal stables drew the funeral [??]r which was preceded by the former chamberlains of the court, [?]earing the royal insignia. Gens. Von Loewenfeld and von Lyncker and former Minister of State von Delbrueck and Breitenbach, Knights of the Black Eagle, held the corners of the purple robe which covered the funeral car. Then came the H[?]henzollern princes and princesses and other members of the former German royal family in equipages of state, these followed by members of the ex-emperor's court and distinguished army officers, among whom were Gens. von Hindenburg. Ludendorff, von Mackenzen and von Kluck. Citizens Take in Visitors. More than half of Potsdam's civilian population extended the hospitality of their homes to the thousands of visitors who were unable to procure public lodgings. Prominent members of the nobility, generals of the army, ministers of the old regime and other distinguished persons gratefully accepted sleeping quarters in private residences. The rush for places along the line of the funeral procession began early. Fifteen hundred security police flanked the avenue leading from Wildpark station to the palace grounds, and their presence obliged hundreds who were unable to get a front row view to seek places on nearby fences and tree tops. The civic organizations in attendance were assigned to places along Victoria avenue and the private driveway, which led into the palace park. William Suffers From Depression By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, April 18.--The former German emperor suffered all through the night from severe nervous depression, and to this was due his absence from the Maarn station this morning when the funeral train departed with the body of his wife, Augusta Victoria. It had been his moment of departure, but it was found impossible for him to go. In the course of the morning he regained his composure in a measure and attended a special service held before Princess Victoria Luise and her husband, the Duke of Brunswick, and Prince Oscar, left for the ceremony at Potsdam, Germany. At the moment of leave taking Wilhelm almost collapsed again, and Princess Luise wept freely, whereas the former crown prince, Frederick William, though nervous, endeavored to hide his emotion. Simultaneously with the funeral services at Potsdam, the former emperor and crown prince and all the others at Doorn castle will pray together in the chapel of the castle. COMBINING MONEY STRIKES INDUSTRY IS LAUCK CHARGE (continued from first page) its right to bargain collectively on a scale co-extensive with the organization of the employers" Taking up first the lay-off charges. The report presented by Mr. Lauck said that railroad shop lay-offs, in-complete, in the past nine months were more than 103,000. A letter from Raton, N.M., of March 11 last, charged that on the Santa Fe, in January, after six machinists had been laid off, the remaining machinists were worked overtime 1,216 hours in that month. Examples of what the report called "the lay-off policy" were instanced from Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Nashville, Oswego, N.Y.; Horton, Kan.; DuBois, Pa., and Ottuma, Iowa. in private residences. The rush for places along the line of the funeral procession began early. Fifteen hundred security police flanked the avenue leading from Wildpark station to the palace grounds, and their presence obliged hundreds who were unable to get a front row view to seek places on nearby fences and tree tops. The civic organizations in attendance were assigned to places along Victoria avenue and the privte driveway, which led into the palace park. William Suffers From Depression. By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, April 18.--The former German emperor suffered all through the night from severe nervous depression, and to this was due his absence from Maarn station this morning when the funeral train departed with the body of his wife, Augusta Victoria. It had been his firm intention to be present at the moment of departure, but it was found impossible for him to go. In the course of the morning he regained his composure in a measure and attended a special service held before Princess Victoria Luise and her husband, the Duke of Brunswick, and Prince Oscar, left for the ceremony at Potsdam, Germany. At the moment of leave taking Wilhelm almost collapsed again, and Princess Luise wept freely, whereas the former crown prince, Frederick William, though nervous, endeavored to hide his emotion. Simultaneously with the funeral services at Potsdam, the former emperor and crown prince and all the others at the Doorn castle will pray together in the chapel of the castle. MUNICIPAL COURT REFERS CASE TO RENT COMMISSION (Continued from First Page.) now under way which will be completed, regardless of the rent decision." Mr. Rust pointed out, but prospective builders of rental property are likely to manifest hesitancy in starting new projects." Louis Hirsch, owner of the building at 919 F street northwest, around which the whole decision revolved, is precluded from obtaining possession of his property, occupied by Julius Block, under the Ball act, unless he desires the premises for his own occupancy. During the controversy, however, he was forced to buy the building at 912 F street, in which he is now located, so that he is confronted with the alternative of staying where he is or filing a petition for possession for personal occupancy with the rent commission. Position of Mr. Hirsh. Mr. Hirsh's story of the controversy over the building occupied by Block follows: "In August, 1919, the building 1 now occupy at 912 F street northwest was sold over my head without the slightest intimation on my part that it was for sale. "The new owners would not then consider me as a tenant or purchaser, and eventually sued and obtained judgment for possession. "To prevent being forced out of business I purchased the property at 919 F street northwest, the lease of which expired December 31, 1919. "The former agent for that building is willing to testify that the tenant attempted to renew his lease during the previous January, but was informed the building was for sale, and on that account the lease would not be renewed; also that he urged his tenant to buy it. "Before that lease expired I notified the tenant possession would be required, and through my attorneys offered him $5,000 to vacate. This was refused and $10,000 demanded. "My suit for possession followed, resulting in the final denial yesterday of my right to possession." Later Mr. Hirsh was allowed to purchase the building he occupies and thus remains in possession. WOULD EXTEND RENT LAW. Chairman Ball of the Senate District committee said today that he proposed to offer during the present session of Congress a resolution extending the life of the Ball rent act, declared constitutional by the United States Supreme Court yesterday. Under the terms of the law it expires October 22, 1921, two years after it was approved by the President. Senator Ball does not believe that the housing situation will have changed materially in the District by next October, and he does believe that the same emergency which made the passage of the rent act necessary will be found to exist and to make necessary a continuance of the operation of the rent act. When Senator Ball offers a joint resolution extending the life of the rent act and the rent commission it will be referred to the District committee, of which he is chairman, and he will have the matter presented. There are other members of the District committee and other senators not members of that committee who will give Senator Ball active support he presents the resolution. American Car and Foundry Company, Depew, N. Y., and Merchants' Dispatch and Transfer Company, East Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Lauck here named companies repairing cars for railroads, which he said had been hiring car repair mechanics whom the railroads laid off. He gave names of some of the workmen and dates of their transfers. The report charged that the roads' new policy is to subcontract in order to remove from government control many of their men. Numerous repair companies, many of them said to be new concerns, were named as taking over railroad repairs. These included: Hornell Repair and Construction Company, Hornell, N. Y., Erie work; Buffalo Steel Car Corporation, work for eight railroads, including the Pennsylvania and the Wabash; Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, several small shipyards, Burnham Car Repair Company, work of the Indiana Harbor Belt Line; Siems-Strembel Company, capitalized at $600,000 at St. Paul; Empire Car Company, at Kankakee, Ill., and Phoenix Transit Company, whose president, the report declared, "was the son of President F. D. Underwood of the Erie railroad." The report said that this company received the Erie's harbor work. The Pittsburgh Courier AMERICA'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER VOL. XII. NO 19 PITTSBURGH, PA., SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921 TEN CENTS A COPY Read By More Than 50,000 People of Intelligence and Money The favorite newspaper of men and women of thought. Published in Pittsburgh. Read everywhere. U. S. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DECISION OF JUDGE TERRELL RACE NATIONAL BANK GETS CHARTER TO APPEAL CASES OF ELAINE RIOTERS Judge Terrell's Decision Upheld EDITORIAL Insanity Run Mad AGAIN WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH GERMAN-AMERICANS. We are not certain just what a German-American is, but if the reports we get are reliable, there are still 700,000 such beings running wild in the United States, and their propaganda is again let loose against black people. But this time, the wicked attack is placed in the hands of a "beautiful" American woman, the wife of a Republican congressman from the State of Illinois. This kind of wickedness can not find a parallel in any other country, except in this curse-ridden land where anything against the black races find ready cultivation at the hands of some heartless whites. Reports come to us that one Mrs. Fred A. Britten, the wife of a man elected to our American congress, is now in France, awaiting an opportunity to see Marshall Foch to place in his hands a petition signed by 700,000 German-Americans who are asking France to remove from the occupied territory the black troops stationed there to keep the Germans out of French territory. The whole scheme of the wife of the congressman is to help her husband hold his favor with the Pro- WHITE WIFE REFUSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST COLORED HUSBAND Daisy Pruitt, aged 45 years, (white) proved at a coroner's inquest today that "love knows no color" when she stoutly refused to testify against her colored husband, Don Pruitt. Pruitt, a handsome fellow, is being held for the murder of William Dawd, aged 59, of 1120 Fulton street, North Side, the nightwatchman at the T. H. Nevin Paint works, Preble and Island avenues, who was slain April 12 while making his rounds through the plant. When the woman was called to the witness stand by Coroner Harry T. E[????] she refused to have anything to say against her husband, for whom it is said she has repeatedly expressed the deepest devotion. During the inquest, the Pruitt woman looked lovingly at her husband in the prisoner's box and he returned her [?] spirit love messages with smiles. The Pruitt woman declares it is all[?] that she loves her husband and will stick to him through thick and thin. CONGRESS ASKED FOR ENFORCEMENT ACT ON EQUAL SUFFRAGE May 6—Congress LOVE OF FINE CLOTHES AND GAY LIFE CAUSE DOWNFALL OF GIRLS [???] pitiful State Republican Organizer MRS. DAISY E. LAM[?] CHICAGO BANK TO OPEN WITH CAPITAL OF $200,000 Chicago, Ill., May 6.—The first national banking institution in the country to be controlled by colored citizens— the Douglass National Bank of Chicago— last Wednesday received its charter from the comptroller of the currency in Washington, following the visit there of P. W. Chavers, prominent Chicago business man. Given Unanimous Support. The bank, which is located at West Thirty-Second and South State streets, was originally a private banking institution controlled by R. W. Woolfolk, a young man, who got himself into difficulties and became insolvent to the extent of $30,000, belonging to depositors. He then went into voluntary receivership. When the private banking law went into effect on January 1, Chavers re- organized his holding to become a National bank. A meeting here of more than 1,500 people of the district was held, and unanimous support of Chavers' idea was expressed. Has Capital of $200,000. The institution proposes opening with $200,000 capital and $50,000 in surplus. Stock in the institution is to be sold exclusively to colored Chicagoans. Chavers is president, and the board of directors is composed [of?] Oliver Funston Smith (white), p[resident?] of the Citizens' Sav[??] Tr[??] [Com?]pany Bank [that?] PAGGE 2. THE PITTSBURGH COURIER SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921. ONE MAN WAS KILLED IN ATTEMPTED JAIL DELIVERY Situation Surrounding Miners Thought to Have Been Cause of Attack of Jail in Small Alabama Village --- Jail Officer Wounded --- Excitement Reigns As Over Fifty Shots Are Fired By Battlers Birmingham, Ala., May 6. --- George Alexandre, member of the Fairfield police department, was shot and an unidentified man was instantly killed about 8:30 o'clock Tuesday night when a party of five men made an attack upon the jailhouse at Fairfield. All five were armed with shot guns and it was said that each of them carried a pistol. Police Officer Alexander was guarding the jailhouse with two other officers when the attack was made. The three officers successfully guarded the jail against the attack and forced the attackers to disperse. It was estimated that practically half a hundred shots were fired in all. The exchange of shots awoke practically every resident in that section of the country and they hurried to the scene of the jailhouse armed with pistols, rifles, and shotguns and whatever they could get their hands on first. The news of the attack spread rapidly through Ensley, Fairfield and Westfield and offers of aid were received from parties of citizens from each community. The rumor also spread that the trouble and shooting had been caused by union and non-union members. This point was not even settled at a late hour Tuesday night, police authorities at Fairfield declining to state whether or not the prisoner was a miner. It is understood, however, that one or two prisoners are being held in jails in Ensley and Fairfield in connection with an attack upon two colored miners near Pratt City several weeks ago. The officers have the body of the man that was killed, but the other four members of the attacking party made good their escape. SHOT RUINS SHOE; FAILS TO INJURE FOOT Residents of the Hill District in the vicinity of Kirkpatrick street and Webster avenue were terrorized, several narrowly escaping injury from flying bullets and Edward Morton of 4 Wesley street experienced most of the sensations of being wounded at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon when Morton was chased through several streets by an unidentified man who emptied his revolver at Morton. One bullet struck the heel of the shoe on Morton's right foot and passed entirely through the sole of the shoe, coming out at the toe, without injuring Morton. Morton, believing he had been shot, called for police aid. After he was in the police patrol on the way to the hospital police suspected he had not been seriously hurt and taking him to the police station removed his shoe to determine what damage had been done. They found that they shoe was practically ruined but the foot was unhurt. Signs of the Times --- Educational Buildings in South Being Pushed Above is shown the colored branch of the Auburn Carnegie library. Below the new science building of Moorehouse college. Atlanta, Ga., May 6-- The colored branch of the Carnegie Library now being erected at the corner of [illegible]urn avenue and Hilliard street, [illegible] is shown at the top. The building is well on towards completion. This structure will be known at the Auburn branch of the Carnegie Library, and the total cost of construction will approximate [illegible]000. Upon completion, it will be stocked with books of every nature and character. The Science building, which is shown at the bottom, being built as an addition to Moorehouse College, and which is about 96 per cent completed, is located at the corner of Chestnut and West Fair streets. The building is of brown brick, with reinforced concrete pillars. The new building will be devoted to science, and complete laboratory equipment will be installed. [?agan?a] a sort if earnest [o?] behalf of her husband. She is quoted as saying in France that all "niggers" are "niggers," and she goes so far as to say that all Americans are indignant because France elects to use North African troops against the Germans. When she undertakes to speak for the American people, she ought to have more than 700,000 Germans back of her statement. We have more than 700,000 people here who are neither German nor anti-French. The "beautiful" American lady will be given the surprise of her life when she visits the occupied region and finds the German ladies entertaining at teas for the North African troops. She will even be invited to meet some of the gentlemen, in all probability. If she meets some of them, she may come home wiser for her trip as a propagandist. Her husband may awake to find himself not a member of Congress when the votes are counted at the next election. This wicked attack upon the black soldiers has been more than met by the ladies of France who have stated more than once that the black troops are demeaning themselves as gentlemen, and that not a single complaint has been registered against them by the Germans. This latest American delegate to France will find France back of her troops, be they black or white. She can not say as much for her own country. The Pro-German lady from America has forgotten that the Germans attacked and assaulted the innocent girls of Belgium when they laid waste the whole country en route to French territory. She forgets the dead nurse; she forgets the slaughter of the aged and helpless. She even forgets the destruction of cathedrals, churches and hospitals. These German atrocities are forgotten by the lady who goes to France in the interest of the guilty Germans who, even now, are trying every possible scheme known to man to evade their war reparations. Let the lady go to France. She will find real people there; people whom God made. She will find herself in the minority against the blacks, and if she comes home to her Pro-German husband, she will find him in the minority in America at the next election in Illinois. The lady represents insanity run mad. Boys Seek To Recover Gold Dug Up In Garden Jackson, Miss., May 6.---John Edward Turner and Adolphus Peterson, small boys, reported to have found a pot of gold while digging in the E. H. Ross garden, recently, have filed suit demanding that Mr. Ross return the gold. Judge Terrell's [???sion} on Hirsch-Block Rent Case Upheld by Supreme Court (Special to the Pittsburgh Courier by Walter J. Singleton) Washington, D. D., May 6.---The decision upholding the Ball Rent [act?] was handed down in the Hirsch-Block test case, in which the District Supreme Court had previously upheld the decision of Judge Terrell, but which had been declared invalid by the District Court of Appeals. The law was enacted by Congress as a war-time measure to prevent rent profiteering and ejectment of tenants who refused to pay exorbitant rentals or those who could find no other dwelling. The test case went to the Supreme Court of the United States on an appeal from the District Courts taken by Julius Block in a suite with Louis hirsch. The Supreme Court of the United States has sustained the original decision of Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, in the Hirsch-Block case, which establishes the constitutionality of the Ball Rent Act. The Hirsch-Block case had its beginning in the Municipal Court before Judge Robert H. Terrell, January 6, 1920, when Louis Hirsch entered suit against Julius Block to obtain possession of 919 F Street Northwest, the lease having expired January 1. Possession was refused under the Ball Act by Judge Terrell, and Hirsch appealed to the District Supreme Court. In that court counsel for the owner consented to a judgment in favor of the tenant in order that the case could be taken to the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals on June 2, 1920, declared the law unconstitutional and remanded the case to the lower court. A petition for a writ of certiorari from the decision of the Court of Appeals was denied by the United States Supreme Court, which said that (Continued on Page 8, Column 4) Southern Mobs Stage Two More Lynchings Hattiesburg, Miss, May 6.---Partial identification by two hysterical white girls, and the subsequent actions of a lawless mob of white men, caused another blood-stain, mute appeal of Federal intervention, to besmirch the red, white and blue, which stands for Democracy, when John Rogers, was lynched here Tuesday and his body hanged to a telegraph pole and riddled with bullets at Carriere, Miss. According to reports emanating from the scene of the lyncring, Rogers was taken from a deputy sheriff and a justice of the peace, who had attempted to hide him in a stretch of woods adjoining the town. He was being spirited from the Covington county jail at Collins to avoid threatened mob violence, when apprehended by a mob of lawless whites and lynched. Bill of Exception Filed for Slayer Memphis, Tenn., May 6.---A bill of exceptions in the case of Matthew Houston, who was convicted of first degree murder, was filed Friday in Second criminal court. The case will now be appealed to the supreme court by Grover McCormick, public defender. Houston killed Frank Daily, a 5-year-old white boy here some time ago. He is under sentence to be electrocuted June 1, but it is probably that the date will be changed by the supreme court. Dentist Wins Suit As "Spite Fence" Is Declared Illegal Indianapolis, Ind., May 6.---"Spite fences" are not legally recognized in the city of Indianapolis or authorized by the statutes of Indiana, Judge Moll decided Thursday when he ruled in favor of Dr. Lucius B. Merriwether, a dentist, 2255 North Capitol avenue, who had brought suit for $10,000 damages against Gabriel and Goldie Slutzky (white), 2257 North Capitol avenue, and Mrs. Mary C. Grooms, 2253 North Capitol avenue. The court awarded Merriwether damages in the sums of $150 from Mrs. Grooms and $350 from the Slutzkys. An order was also issued by Judge Moll directing the defendants to remove by noon Friday the "spite fence," parts of the wooden wall which extended more than six feet above the ground dividing the Merriwether property from the Slutzky and Groom properties. The case created considerable discussion last summer when the question of preventing colored people from moving up Capitol avenue and the action was brought by Dr. Merriwether, July 14, 1920, when the Capitol Ave- (Continued on Page Eight, Col. 6.) County Not Liable for Italian Hurt In Illinois Race Riots Chicago, Ill., May 6.---Franklin county, Ill., is not liable for injuries to persons in the riots at Frankfort, Ill., a year ago, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals here ruled last week in denying the claim of Dominic Conto for $3000 damages because of injuries received during the disorders. The case was heard in a lower court which upheld a demurrer filed by the county, asserting that the county was not liable inasmuch as the riots occurred in Frankfort City, which, the demurrer said, had adequate police protection and funds to prevent a riot. The United States Court upheld the demurrer. Want $1,000 For School Norfolk, Va., May 6.---REv. Matthew Hamilton, who for the last two years had been directing the work of the Community Primary Kindergarden school for colored pupils, on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in The Hall launched a campaign to raise $1,000 for the purpose of bettering sanitary and other facilities of the present school at 910 Church street and for widening the scope of the work. [??????????? women] [???????????mendation] of one of its constituent organizations, the National Association of Colored Women, is adopted at the bi-ennial council in Philadelphia in November. The recommendation was made by Miss Hallie Q. Brown of Wilberforce, O., president of the colored women, in her report to the board of directors of the council on the second day of its meeting at the Claypool hotel. Miss Brown's report protested also against lynch law and asked that lynching be made a federal crime. The report urged that a colored woman of fitness and ability be placed on all educational and industrial bureaus affecting the welfare of the race. Miss Brown said that while women as well as colored women had been prevented from voting in southern states. The May Wright Sewall Indiana Council of Women presented a resolution, to be acted on at board meeting, asking the national council to start a campaign for better homes, and ask the governor of each state to designate a better homes week. [?????] a Morals co[???] when Eva Johns[???] ter, 17, and Mary Saunders, 18, [??e] mere clips of girls, were held the grand jury on a charge of lar- [???] each under $300 bond. The girls are accused of having [???en] $200 from Kenney Pitt, Louis- [???] a horse trainer, while he was on the track. The man is said [???ave] left $6,000 in his clothes, [???h] was overlooked. Race Trouble Quiets Down -- 15 Arrested Birmingham, Ala., May 6.---There are no further indications of race troubles in Fairfield and Ensley, where a large number of special officers have been on patrol duty since the clash between several race men and policemen Tuesday night. Conditions in both towns had returned to normal Saturday. Fifteen Negroes have been arrested. 25th Infantry Guards Border Against Uprising at Sonora Nogales, Ariz., May 6.---The Twenty-fifth United States Infantry Tuesday was guarding closely the international border here to prevent spreading to the American side the disorders which broke out in Nogales, Sonora, just across the line Monday night. The trouble received formal recognition from the United States government Monday night when Major Frank Thorp, Jr., field artillery of the Regular Army, inspected the first battery to be formed from the Eighteenth in the armory. The outfit, known as Headquarters Battery, One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Field Artillery (motorized), is composed of 62 men, commanded by Captain William B. Murray. It is equipped with wireless and telephone. Attorneys Will Prevent Electrocutions On Date Fixed by Gov. McRae Little Rock, Ark., May 6.---Again the famous Elaine riot cases are in the limelight. The latest word states that Governor McRae has set Friday, June 10, as the day of execution for six of the men sentenced to death for participation in the Elaine riots in Phillips county, October, 1919. But the men will not go to their death without a supreme effort on the part of their attorneys to check the wheels of justice (?) which are slowly, but surely closing in on them. E. L. McHaney, one of the attorneys for the six condemned men, Friday said that before June 5, a writ of habeas corpus will be filed in Federal Court, thereby removing the matter from the state's jurisdiction. If this writ is denied, appeal will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. The men whose execution date has been set are J. E. Knox Ed [???man], Paul Hall, Frank Hicks, [????icks] and Frank Moore. They have bee held in the state penitentiary since November, 1920, [a???] after the affirmation of their sentence in the Phillips County Circuit Court by the Supreme Court, the case went up to the United States Supreme Court on a writ of certiorari, but the latter court refused to review the case. The cases of the other six men, Ed Ware, John Martin, Joe Fox, Albert Giles, Will Wordlow and Alfred Banks, are pending again in the Phillips Circuit court, having twice been remanded by the Arkansas Supreme Court for a new trial. (Continued on Page 8, Column 7.) State Organization to Meet In Harrisburg June 9 and 10 In order more perfectly and completely to form and establish a state-wide organization among our people for the better promotion of our civic and political interests throughout the Commonwealth, a call is hereby issued to every loyal and interested race man and woman of the state to meet in session assembled at Harrisburg at high noon on June 9, 1921, when and where a constitution and suitable by-laws will be adopted, and the purpose and scope of the organization determined by the people. Every district in the state is requested to send representation. Robert L. Vann, State Chairman. [???o] Organize Republican Clubs in Pennsylvania The recent defeat of the Civil Rights Bill at the hands of the Pennsylvania Legislature has cleared away any remaining doubt that may have existed in the minds of the Negroes of this State. They know now just where they stand and what they must do. The lesson coming so close in the wake of the so long sought for enfranchisement of women has given the Negro women of this State a clearly defying and most unmistakable mapped out course of duty along lines of political activity. In clubdom, in organizations of all kinds, women are discussing this lamentable occurrence and are interpreting aright the import of its lesson -- the need and value of united action. The result has been a determination to get together and work out plans, which will weld together our women in a solid united body, which can co-operate and co-ordinate with the men voters of this Commonwealth, thus forming a body which will be a potential factor in the body politic of Pennsylvania. The attitude of Pennsylvania Negro women is an echo of the attitude of all Negro women of this United States who have learned the benefit of united action, and are now organizing themselves into a strong body, which will have to be reckoned with politically. At the call of Mrs. Julia Bumry Jones, the Editor of the Woman's Department of the Competitor, the Allegheny County League of Republican Negro Women was formed with the object of thoroughly organizing Allegheny county. The temporary staff officers are Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, chairman; Mrs. Sara F. McClanahan, vice chairman; Mrs. Luella Howard, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Sadie de Mund Lynch, recording secretary; Mrs. Alice Waring Holmes, treasurer. Mrs. Lampkin has, with the assistance of the executive committee and seven organizers, succeeded in getting the county in line, and is planning for a mammoth county meeting, when the (Continued on Page 8, Column 5) Charges of Inhuman Work of Night Riders Arouses Governor Atlanta, May 6.--Formal request to couprt officials of Taliarferro county to take steps to stop alleged brutal treatment of colored hands by "night riders" was made by Governor Dorsey on receipt of an appeal from a white citizens of that county, while federal authorities began investigation of the reported murder of a man on the road between Machen and Covington, Ga., to determine if peonage were involved. "Please don't use my name in this, for if you should, then my life would be in danger at their hands, as I don't feel any too safe as it is," concluded the letter made public at the capital regarding "night riders" in Taliaferro county. After signing his name the writer added a postscript with the further warning, "Remember, governor, don't mention my name as having reported this to you, for I know what it might mean to me." The letter declared that acrowd of white men and boys had gone to the home of a man on the outskirts of Crawfordsville and "pulled him out of (Continued on Page 8, Column 5) Race Man, Positively Identified By White Woman, Is Acquitted Louisville, Ky., May 6.--After deliberating two hours a jury in the Criminal Court Thursday acquittee James Irvin Scott, of a charge of holding up and robbing Miss Bessie S. Hillerich (white) the night of April 10 at the mouth of an alley on Thirty-second street. Scott proved to the satisfaction of the jury that he was at the Thomas Garage, where his father is employed, at the time of the holdup. He was arrested the following morning near the scene of the holdup and was identified by Miss Hillerich as her assailant. Paroled Convict, "Con" Victim, to Spend Last Days at Home of Birth Frankfort, Ky., May 6.---Phillip Smith, convict in the last stage of tuberculosis and one of fourteen prisoners paroled recently, will go back to his home in Alabama to spend his remaining days through the generosity of the Mutual Welfare League, the prisoners' organization, which operates the reformatory store. Steam Laundry Company Opens Every few days we hear of our group making a further invasion of the field of commercial activities in Pittsburgh. The latest venture is a modernly equipped steam laundry located at 1399 Hodgkiss street, North Side. The proprietors, C. C. Clark and H. W. Shepard, announce the opening of this establishment for business on Monday, May 9, at which time they will be pleased to have the public visit and inspect the plant. The plant is equipped with two manglers, a collar maching, a abody and cuff press, two washers and a large dryer. All of the machinery is the most modern that can be had and has been installed under the personal supervision of this firm for several months. The C. & S. Laundry Company has two auto delivery trucks. Messrs. Clark and Shepard have had several years experience in the laundry business. They announce that the prices will be very reasonable and the work neatly finished. See their ad in this paper, next week, as to the service this new company will render. Quarrel Over Eggs Ends In Death of One Lynchburg, Va., May 6.--Haywood Fortune, white, Thursday night shot and almost instantly killed John Hayes, colored, in a quarrel over a business matter. Hays was shot three times, one shot in the head proving fatal. [?????] ler, one of Chicago's leading physicians. While the south has many banks owned and controlled by colored men, doing a large banking business to colored people, they have all been organized under state supervision, and never before have colored men become heads of a National bank. Chavers resurrected the bank institution from an insolvent private affair, becoming its receiver and director and reorganizing it as a Merchants' and People's Bank, which he later expanded into the present organization.l ********************************** To The Memory of Mother Sunday, May 8 Wear a pink carnation if your mother is living and a white carnation if she is dead. *********************************** Prisoner Sentenced In Municipal Court Tells Judge Five or Ten Days Would Be Sufficient--Is Given Letter. Columbus, Ohio, May 6.---When asked by Judge Seidel in Municipal Court as to what kind of sentence he wocld impose upon himself, Jack Smith, said he thought a good hard working man like himself who had never been arrested before for being intoxicated ought to be excused. When reminded that this was the second offense and that he had been off probation only three weeks, the defendant said, "Well, maybe I'd give him most anything; somethin' like five or ten days.' "Ten days in the city prison," said Judge Seidel. President, In Letter, Lauds Welfare Work New York, May 6.,---Praise for the work of the National Urban League for Social Service Among Negroes was expressed in a letter from President Harding, made public last week by Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary of the organization. President Harding, replying to a letter from Mr. Jones commending utterances regarding the race problem in his recent address to Congress, wrote that the league had been "particularly useful in its contribution toward the solution of the problem of the races in the United States, because it has sought to secure the co-operation of leading people of both races in attacking these problems." "I feel that this represents the only procedure by which we can hope for fullest and most desirable results," continued the letter. "The race problem is one that concerns all of us and which we must all join in handling." Arrest Six Whites on Lynching Charge Louisville, Ga., May 6.---Warrents were taken out here last week against six men charging them with assault with intent to murder in connection with the shooting of Edward Fleming, whom they alleged to have attempted to lynch a short distance from here Saturday night. B. T. Hathaway, C. M. McNeil and Millett Harrold have been arrested. Judge C. 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Pennington, general passenger agent of the world's greatest railroad, who stated that even the signs in the Philadelphia yard, which were objectionable to the Colored people, had been removed, said: "The Pennsylvania railroad employs more Colored people as Red Caps, attendants in the offices of executives, maids on the blue ribbon trains, Pullman porters, waiters, as well as in other capacities, than any other railroad, has always endeavored to give them courteous treatment and has understood that all these employees were satisfied." Millions of our people, together with their white friends, have longed for the day when the railroad which made the American nation an empire would declare itself on color prejudice. Twenty years ago A. J. Cassett, who took the Pennsylvania into New York city, said in an ad- dress that the Pennsylvania, founded in the spirit of the Quaker, would be maintained in the spirit of the Emancipator. He spoke then of William Penn and Abraham Lincoln. When the "Pennsy," first American railways, takes a stand for equality and against discrimination, the day is not far distant when all the great transcontinental lines will declare themselves to be anticracker. Mr. Pennington said that the Greyhound burses drew no color line. From his office in Philadelphia Mr. Pennington doesn't know what his Greyhound conductors pull. All citizens of the Quaker City are happy over the stand taken by the Pennsylvania railroad. VETERAN PENNSY BRAKEMAN RETIRED ON PENSION MARCH. 31 Thomas H. Adams, a passenger Ohio, March 28, 1861, and was [?] brought up on a farm 10 miles from Fines Woman for Following Orders of "Good Doctor" MEMPHIS, March 20. "You've got a good doctor, but I'll have to find you $25 just the same," stated a judge in the city court when Mrs. Nettie Shaw, 35, was brought be- fore him on a liquor charge. Raiding officers found a gallon of whiskey in her home. In court she pleaded that she had been using it in an effort to cure her husband, who was very sick with the influenza. "My doctor told me to give him a little eggnog," she said. Arkansas Lawyer Visits Chicago Attorney J. D. Shackelford Here on Business Attorney J. D. Shackelford, promi- nent Hot Springs barrister, spent three days here last week on business. Friday afternoon the lawyer visited The Chicago Defender plant, after which he went on a motor tour of the city. Attorney Shackelford, besides his vast private law practice, is counsel for the Woodmen of Union, the Union Investment company and the Century Life Insurance company. Born in Mississippi, Mr. Shackelford received his early education in the public schools there and was graduated at Rust college, Holly Springs Miss. He was prepared for law at the University of California. Before entering the general practice of law, Mr. Shackelford taught school in Prescott, Ark., for a number of years. He is one of the best known public men in the state of Arkansas and has many friends throughout the country. Attorney Shackelford was here from March 12 to 18. School Principals Confer in Florida TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 20. Responding to the summons of Superintendent of Education W. S. Cawthon and to Supervisor of Edu- cation D. E. Williams, the second annual conference of principals brought [?] A and M college 46 Morris Brown Begins Drive for $100,000 ATLANTA, March 20. Founder's day at Morris Brown university, which was celebrated with appropriate exercises on the campus Thursday morning, March 12, and at Big Behtel A. M. E. church Thrus- day evening, marked the launching of the campaign in which $100,000 is to be raised by the close of the school year. Drs. W. F. Boddie of Forsyth and W. H. Harris of Athens were the principal speakers on the morning program, while T. K. Glenn, members of the board of directors of the First National bank and President J. R. McCain of Agnes Scott college were the speakers for the evening, with music furnished by Morris Brown chorus and Big Bethel choir. I tis the plan of Morris Brown to transfer its base of operation from Boulevard and Houston St., where it has been conducted for the past years to a new site on W. Hunter Rd., beyound the Booker T. Washington high school on a tract of 20 acres of ground on which the initial payment has already been made. Toward com- [?ing] the payment of this tract general education board has of- [?d) a conditional gift of $50,000, [?vided] the school ends its year [?] of [?] for which purpose it is [?ary] to raise $100,000 in cash [?] collectable pledges by commencement day. The faculty and student body have contributed $1,091 in cash and $7,018 was raised in the evening at Big Bethel. Thus the kick-off was quite enthusiastic and the campaign should gain momentum as a result of it. Bishop W. A. Fountain and President W. A. Fountain Jr., together with a representative group of business and professional men of the city, including members of the Alumni association, have been holding daily meetings in order to perfect a campaign organization in order to make the appeal nation-wide. Morris Brown is making her approach on a basis of sustained self-help given by the Race since its foundation a half century ago. It is the only institution of learning in the city which has depended almost wholly upon the Race for financial support. Contributions will be sought not only from members of the A. M. E. church, but from members of all churches, the public at large. Berry O'Kelly, Educator, Banker, Dies in Raleigh RALEIGH, N. C., March 20. Berry O'Kelly, prominent leader, banker, educator and churchman, and known throughout the South for his philanthropies, died Saturday, March 14, at St. Agnes hospital, after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were held March 16 in the chapel of the Berry O'Kelly training school at Method, N . C., an institution he was instrumental in founding many years ago. He lived in Method, and left there three weeks ago to enter St. Agnes hospital. Services were conducted by the Rev. J. W. Walker, presiding elder of the A. M. E. church, Greensboro district, and burial was in the Community cemetery in Method. He was a trustee of Kittrel college and a member of the executive committee of the State Interracial com- mission. He was chairman of the school committee of his community. As a churchman Mr. O'Kelly was a member and steward of St. James A. M. E. church at Method, and a lay member of the General North Carolina conference. With the late Booker T. Washington he founded the National Negro Business league, now headed by Dr. R. R. Moton, president of Tuskegee. Mr. O'Kelly is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Beryl O'Kelly, of Method. Deaf and Dumb Man Is Shot for Not Answering MEMPHIS, March 20. Mistaken for a burglar, Maxwell Allen, a deaf and dumb mute, of 276 N. Decatur, was shot in the hip by Joe Gray of 340 Queen Bee St. The latter is being held pending an investigation by the homicide squad. Allen is said to have gone to Gray's home at midnight on a cor- dial errand. He knocked at the front door. "Who's there?" called out Gray. There was no answer. Upon receiving no reply to another call Gray fired through the closed door, pegging Allen in the hip. Offer New Courses at Morgan College Many Teachers Added to Summer Faculty BALTIMORE, March 20. Elaborate plans are being made for the 1931 summer session of Morgan college, according to the recently published bulletin. For the first time, courses will be offered in home economics and industrial arts. Professor McBride of Columbia university will have charge of the arts course. Ad- equate room for these additional courses is provided in the newly erected science building, which is equipped with special classrooms and a cafeteria. Additions to the college summer school faculty, according to the director of the summer courses, Francis M. Wood include Dr. J. E. McAllister Prof. G. David Houston, Prof. William Flwers, Miss Lucretia Gibbs, Miss M. Frances Jackman, Miss Elizabeth White, Miss Grace Broening, Dr. Louis Burnett, Prof. Harry T. Pratt, Prof. Howard Gross, Prof. Lewis Moon, Prof. George Grant, Prof. Milton Calloway and Dr. Mason Hawkins. The college summer demonstration school will include Mrs. Helen Perks and Miss. Margaret Hirschman. Teachers in the primary department will be Mrs. Gladys Derry, Miss Mary Brown and Miss Esther Baskerville, and in the intermediate department, Miss Adah Watts, Mrs. Marguerite Sheldon and Mrs. Roberta Henderson. Lawyers to Pay High Tribute to Life and Work of Able Jurist PHILADELPHIA, March 20. The National Bar association, through the office of its president, Raymond Pace Alexander, issued a short sketch of the life of the late Judge Robert H. Terrell of Washington, D. C. The association is sponsoring the Robert H. Terrell Memorial week (April 18 to 25, inclusive) when memorial services for the late eminent jurist will be held in important cities throughout the country. As a part of the program for the memorial services, the publishing of the following sketch affords a timely review of Judge Terrell's interesting career: As a student, teacher, lawyer and jurist, Judge Terrell's work was always brilliant an dunique. He graced his profession and his Race with a record of accomplishment and integrity of which any man might well be proud. He was born at Orange, Va., on Nov. 25, 1857, about four years before the war that was to bring freedom and opportunity to him and to his people. His father was William Henry Harrison Terrell; his mother was, before her marriage, Louise Ann Coleman. Judge Terrell died Dec. 20, 1925 at his home in Washington, D. C. after having served as judge of the municipal court of the District of Columbia for a continuous period of 23 years. Graduate of Harvard Coming of school age during the Civil war, young Terrell had no chance to gain an education until his family moved to Washington during the early reconstruction days. Here he laid the foundation of his education in the public schools, where later he was to become a teacher and principal. After making a brilliant record in the high school, he matriculated at Lawrence academy, Groton, [?] had become a national figure in the national Republican councils. In recognition of his outstanding merit President Roosevelt appointed him judge of the municipal court of the District of Columbia. He was later appointed by President Roosevelt and President Taft. With the coming into power of a Democratic administration under President Wilson one would natural expect to see Judge Terrell displaced. How- ever, when his name came up for reappointment, it carried with it the unqualified and unanimous recommendation of the District of Columbia Bar association, composed of Democrats and Republicans, predominantly southerners. He was promptly appointed by President Wilson and reappointed and confirmed by a Democratic senate in Wilson's second term. Judge Terrell was reappointed by President Harding and was confirmed by the senate on June 22, 1924, about one week after his name had been submitted. He had been confirmed six times. Supreme Court Upholds Decision At the time of his death he was the dean of the municipal court bench, and left the remarkable record of having been reversed in his decisions by the court of appeals only five times in 23 years on the bench. In his decision upholding the Ball rent act, Judge Terrell's most important legal triumph is well remembered. Not only did he have the honor of being sustained by the United States supreme court; the victory was doubly important and no doubt doubly gratifying because his decision had twice been reversed by the District court of appeals, which declared the Ball rent act unconstitutional. Lanlords Flock To Judge Terrell With Rent Fights Judge Robert H. Terrell of the Municipal Court is one of the most popular men in the District these days Over a thousand people have sought his counsel within the past three weeks, for since June 7 he has been besieged each day by District citizens, each of whom has his own pet rent case to be heart. The daily average of seventy cases a day have been filed since the rai on the Municipal Court started, and on some days decisions on fifty cases have been handed down. Despite the rush each day to have a word with the judge, Terrell maintains his composure. "It's all in a day's work," says "his Honor." 000130 Veteran Pennsy Brakeman Retires on Pension Mar. 31 Thomas H. Adams a passenger train brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad since 1880 and the last member of the Race to hold such a position in the entire country, will retire March 31 on pension. For a number of years he has operated on the Broadway Limited, crack New York-Chicago Pennsylvania train on the run from Fort Wayne, Ind., where ie lives, to its western terminal at Chicago. A delegation of friends and railroad officials are expected to greet him when he sets down the old lantern at the Union station the last of the month. Mr. Adams was born in Urbana, Ohio, March 29, 1861, and was brought up on a farm 10 miles from town. At the age of 18 he went to Fort Wayne and on May 12, 1880 he started working for the "Pennsy." According to the retiring brakeman, the records of the company show no farther back than Aug. 23, 1881, which he says cut him short four months of 50 years service. Because the records don't show that he has given 50 years of service to the company, Mr. Adams will not receive the honor gold emblem, symbolic of a half century of honorable service to the Pennsylvania. Speaking of his work on the "road," Mr. Adams said: "I have tried to give the company my best at all times. There were four of us at one time, but the rest died or were pensioned and left me to fight the battle alone. "I can say for the company and for the men with whom I came into contact that I could hardly expect better treatment,. Also I have learned that whatever you get in this world you have to pay something for it. I have enjoyed my work, but am happy to go a little easy now, as my allotted three score and 10 years have almost been reached. Hi-Y Conference Meets in Raleigh RALEIGH, N.C., March 20.--The eighth annual state Older Boys Hi-Y conference will be held at the Washington high school in Raleigh April 10, 11 and 12. The main theme of the conference will be religion and economics. The conference leaders will attempt to help the boys relate themselves to daily life through the most fundamental religious principles. Raleigh is preparing a large local committee to take care of at least 300 boys. The president of the conference is Prof. J. T. Taylor, State college, Durham. Prof. J. A. Tarpley of the Dudley high school, Greensboro, is corresponding secretary. Other important members of the state committee are president D. D. Jones, Greensboro; Prof. Harold Trigg, state department of education; Prof. L. S. Burford, Elizabeth City; Prof. L. S. Cozart, executive secretary State Teachers association; Prof. William C. Craver, field secretary Shaw university. Prof. E. A. Cox of Berry O'Kelly school is chairman of the committee on furnishing meals. Prof. J. W. Atkins, principal of Washington high school, is chairman of the local committee. // EQUALITY TO ALL SATURDAY - EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CHICAGO DEFENDER - MARCH 21, 1931 SERVICE - JUSTICE ------- A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. - Proverbs XXII: 1 The text was selected by Bishop W. J. Walls, Chicago district A. M. E. Zion church. The text next week will be given by Rev. Dr. Elbert W. Moore, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Columbus, Ohio. // // The Chicago Defender Platform for America 1. The opening up of all trades and trade unions to blacks as well as white. 2. Representation in the president's cabiney. 3. Engineers and firemen on all American railroads and government controlled industries. 4. Representation in all departments of the police forces over the entire United States. 5. Government schools open to all American citizens in preference to foreigners. 6. Conductors on all railroads throughout the United States. 7. Motormen and conductors on surface, elevated and motorbus lines throughout America. 8. Federal legislation to abolish lynching. 9. Full enfranchisement of all American citizens. // //COLOR IN TEACHERS AND TEACHING// COLOR in teachers seems now to have the floor and it appears that character of instruction will have to await a more convenient season. Not what is to be taught and not how knowledge may be imparted to young and tender minds, but, rather, who will teach; in what color shall they come and from what stem of man do they spring, now tips every busy tongue of experimentation. The present dispute centers upon Lincoln university in Pennsylvania, a true college. Because of the character of its instruction, its history, and the vigor of its standard in learning, and also because it is devoted to the highest education of men, Lincoln and its fate must always be deemed of weighty first importance in our scheme of education. It should call upon the sympathy of every earnest heart. A thousand biographies could be written to make a single volume of its story. Whether Negroes come in to teach there, as some now demand, or whether white professors remain in sole charge of the college, is not the main question, whatever may be said by those who now debate the matter. As we watch the change in morals and manners of our age, and mark the flippant disregard of true education in the young, the question as regards Lincoln or any institution called on to withstand assault from those who live by assault is, What of the standards maintained by Lincoln since 1854? The main point seems lost upon the disputants. That point is, For what was Lincoln established? Who established it? Who now maintains it? And does any change in its faculty, by addition of substraction {{subtraction}}, or in its curriculum by spirit or book, mean the quitting of its well-being by the present authority which sustains it? Thoroughness for 70 years has been twin word with character at Lincoln. Its distinguished alumni is proof of a stern faithfulness to its aims. The despicability of pretension is a famous theme at Lincoln and true scholarship is nowhere in our country, whether in college of race or school of creed, more honored in the observance. Its faculty of only 26 and its student body of less than 400, emphasizes its study zeal in the spirit of its founders. It was established as a leader training school. Teachers and preachers sound in the faith Lincoln sought first to anoint and dispatch to waiting and needy fields. Lincoln draws no line, except of good character and intentions, among its students. Although it lingers in the doctrine of the {{column break}} Presbyterian faith and has been fostered by the great church since its birth, the creed of the applicant is unstressed. Its presidents have all been distinguished members of the Presbyterian communion, since it was established even before Taney's Dred Scott decision as Ashmun institute by the venerable John M. Dickey. However, to alumni, to students and to all on either side of the present controversy, the thought seems not to occur to take counsel of the Presbyterian church in any matter affecting Lincoln. It was they who resisted every doubt and planted it. It is theirs. It may be that the Presbyterians will do at Lincoln what white Baptists did at Morehouse. Or what the Methodist Episcopal church did at Claflin and once sought to do at Clark. They may turn the ancient sacrifice entirely into the hands of the Race. Or they may follow the Congregationalists, and as at Fisk and Talladega and Tougaloo, and with gradual evidence of faith in our ability to teach in the doctrine of the pioneers add one by one a Negro of teaching power to the faculty. Or they may determine to go on as they have gone along with a faculty agreeable only to the board of trustees. They may choose to close Lincoln rather than surrender a conviction. Loud language of bite and dare is not in order in so serious a matter as the future of Lincoln university. Another matter we may consider as we settle the affairs of Lincoln. Gentlemen who feel authorized to demand the right of scrutiny of schools and colleges should bear in mind that as we seek opportunity for our teachers we must be willing to take on responsibility for the maintenance of both faculty and school. Authority follows philanthropy and only those able to set up a college have the right of say-so in its conduct. We may appeal to reason. We may petition sympathy from the ear bent in kindness. We may knock upon the door in all expectancy and ask of patience its permission to do a task. We may take justice with us to the seats of power. And yet there will be no independence for us until we can ourselves support what we wish to control. We wish, as all who are ambitious for the Race must wish, that Negroes, if they can grasp the Lincoln spirit, will find places on the famous faculty of our oldest college, but we wish, above all, to keep Lincoln at peace with itself and remain the covenant between the Race and the Presbyterian church of the United States. We must not lose contact at a single point with the organized moral forces of our country. ======= //The President Goes Visiting// MR. HOOVER needs rest, plenty of it, after having met two congresses. His decision to take to quiet southern waters for a cruise will meet the approval of the American people, who believe that the president who can withstand congress for two years is entitled to all of earth, air and sea in the care-free way. Two points on land Mr. Hoover plans to touch, Porto Rico and the Virgin islands. Porto Ricans are one branch of Uncle Sam's varying and varied family and the Virgin islanders another. Both islands will receive the president with open arms, and, likewise, open hands. Want and suffering have been spoken of as being abroad in both places, and stark poverty creeps around in the Virgin- {{column break}} used the compliment to pay the tribute. Over and above the singers, who gave us perfection in ensemble, was Hampton, the living covenant, and Armstrong, who planted the new New England on the soil of Virginia, and, with Cravath, the establisher of Fisk, put self-respect back in the bosoms that had been degraded by bondage and the licentious depravity of slaveholders. Beyond the singers and the songs was Hampton, center of unrelenting Puritanism at work among the new Race. "Peter, Feed My Sheep," was sung in splendor by the choir. The shepherd and his spirit still live all through Hampton. Armstrong fed the sheep and nurtured the lambs. And the singers put in music the range and beauty, the power and the grandeur of Samuel Chapman Armstrong, one among the few immortals. ------- //Why Slavery Persists- {{column break}} //The Same Old Excuse// {{image}} LYNCHING EVIL STATE'S RIGHTS ------- //WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY// [The Chicago Defender does not vouch for the authenticity or truthfulness of letters printed in this column, nor do letters contained herein express opinions or views of the defender. All letters must be signed with name and address of writer. They must be confined to 250 words.} TO THE RESCUE OF DR. WOODSON Editor, The Chicago Defender: I have just read your very appropriate editorial anent Dr. Carter G. Woodson, noted race historian. Needless to say that is is apparent to all who have any appreciable interest in the historical background of the race that Dr. Woodson is performing a noble task. The Negro does not know his own history, and certainly, he cannot learn it as taught in the schools of today. In fact, he actually unlearns it. I believe that whatever has been lost in funds contributed for research work because of his revealing the facts as they obtain{{?}} in race history as taught, (or rather not taught) it should be made up by those who appreciate race history as outlined by so noted an educator. I understand that approximately $5,000 have been lopped off, and I take this method of showing the way to make up the deficit by donating the sum of one dollar towards the amount. I am sure that if 4999 of the million or more readers of your most estimable paper will do likewise - and it can be done - the five thousand dollars will be forthcoming. Respectfully, E. J. MOORE, Los, Angeles, Calif., March 1, 1931. *** COMMUNISM AS A PANACEA OF ALL OUR ILLS Editor of the W. G. W.: The mam- {{column break}} elties and injustices, which have followed each succeeding generation will not conform to the theory of communism, nor does communism create providence or mitigate improvidence. Communism knows no trick by which it can break through concrete antipathy and purge human hearts of unfairness. Communism is not the solution, legislation also has its limitations, yes the boundary of legislation is fixed. By legislation we cannot annilate indolence. By legislation we cannot bridge the great divide. The division of morals, and of intellect which exist amongst peoples. We cannot legislate the return of seasons, neither can we legislate the return of prosperity, and in the depths of dismal depression or in the radiance of abundant prosperity we cannot by legislation disrobe ambition of the garments of greed, discrimination and inhumanity and invest him with the immaculate garments of munificence, equality and justice. Yes, the boundary of legislation is established. Yet when legislation reaches its limit here is where the doctrine of the brotherhood of man begins operation. If it fails to function, there must be that stimulation of the spirit, of indissoluble cohesion of self and mutual help to effect a constructive and lasting relief. Mammoth parades, with blatancy and but- {{column break}} From The Chicago Defender's Columns //15 YEARS AGO// MARCH 18, 1916 HACHITA, N. M. - The Tenth United States cavalry, accompanied by the Seventh cavalry, Battery B of the Sixth field artillery, and four companies of the 11th infantry, a detachment of hospital and signal corps, moved across the border Wednesday. Two pack trains of 60 mules each, two auto truck trains, and an automobile supply train followed. This entire column was under the command of Colonel Dodd. The infantry will hold the border while the cavalry will attack. ----- CHICAGO. - The Eighth regiment, I. N. G., is ready for the frav. Colonel Dennison and his staff are ready to move within 24 hours. the captains have been busy recruiting their companies to full war strength. The news that Governor Dunne had tendered the entire state troops to President Wilson, especially the first brigade, in which the eighth is, was met with hearty approval. ----- NEW ORLEANS. - The Flint Medical college and the Sarah Goodrich Nurses Training school combined sometime ago, and now this city has a first-class hospital with nurse training attached. ----- VALDOSTA, Ga. - Will Clark, a reader of The Chicago Defender, has made a record for himself. He defended himself and thereby defended the Race. It is the same of story. A white man wanted to get the best of a Race man and the Race man won out. {{column break}} MOUTH HEALTH // THE CHICAGO DEFENDER has established this department in co-operation with the Lincoln Dental society. The purpose of this department is to give information in regard to dental health, to arouse necessary interest in this important health field. If you want advice or information on any question of mouth health, write to the Mouth Health Department, Chicago Defender, inclosing a stamped, addressed envelope. Your questions will be gladly answered. // TEETHING AND THE CHILD'S DIGESTION "YOUNG MOTHER" wants to know what effect teething has on causing the digestion troubles of her child. The teething period of the child has been blamed for many of its ills. Nearly every ill that a child has, with the exception of contagious diseases, has been laid to teething. And since teething goes on from 6 months to 2 1/2 years of age, there is always time enough to lay the symptoms of other ailments to teething. Most babies cut their teeth without any trouble. The teeth appear without the slightest inconvenience and the tooth is discovered while washing or dressing the baby. A small proportion may lose their appetite for several days and a few are really made sick by teething. A slight diarrhea and occasional vomiting may occur but usually clears up within a few days. In such cases there is a present a certain amount of redness of the gums. This is shown by increased temperature while there is the desire to bite hard on anything placed in the mouth. Besides loss of appetite and slight diarrhea, there may be feverishness, some eruption of the skin, restlessness, irritability and the child may be considerably supset. These signs appear before a tooth is cut and disappear before a tooth is cut and disappear when the tooth comes through the gums. Nourishment Reduced With Boiled Water When the form of the tooth can be made out by pressing on the gum and the child is fretful and feverish, the nourishment should be temporarily reduced. The breastfed baby can be given one ounce of boiled water immediately after such feeding. For the bottle-fed baby, dilute the food with from one-fourth to one-third boiled water. The baby's gums may be gently rubbed by the mother or nurse three or four times a day, with the finger covered with a clean towel. If the baby enjoys biting on a soft rubber ring, there is no objection to this - but do not use a thimble or any hard substance in an attempt to rub the tooth through. This latter method may make the condition worse by causing inflammation of the gums. Lancing of the gums to let the tooth through is an operation that is seldom necessary. The point to remember about teething troubles is that troubles of this sort are the exception rather than the rule. Almost always, where symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting arise, it will be found that causes other than cutting of teeth are bringing them on. Teething may be delayed or the teeth may come in irregularly or decay rapidly. Early decay of the teeth makes the existence of rickets seem probable, though ill health from other causes may act the same way. It occasionally happens that the first or second teeth are never cut. Medicine Valueless in Teething The mother cannot do much to help her baby cut its teeth. It is a natural act that will come of its own volition. Applying medicines to the gums at this period is of no value in reducing the pain. In fact, it is risky, as the baby may swallow enough to make it ill. {{column break}} THE Chicago Defender WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY Founded May 6, 1905, by ROBERT S. ABBOTT, LL. B. ------- Published by THE ROBERT S. ABBOT PUBLISHING CO. (Incorporated) -------- Entered as second-class matter Feb. 1, 1908, at the post office at Chicago, Ill., under act of March 3, 1879. ------- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION (Payable in advance) - One year, $3.00; six months, $1.75; foreign, $3.50 per year. -------- LONDON - 9a Green St., Leicester Square, London, W. C. 2, England CHICAGO - 3435 Indiana Ave. Telephone Douglas 0697. -------- ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE W. B. ZIFF Co., Chicago, New York, Los Angele- Atlanta. ------- // American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed! - ROBERT S. ABBOTT. // ------- //Why Slavery Persists// (Continued from Column 2) must have known at once the coming tou- of the present flatterer. Not because ignorance did write but th- intelligence might have read do we quote th- fawner's refrain: "The white people have been superior to al others from the beginning of time. They have made the greatest governments, produced the finest literature; handled the great world affairs. Produced the most wonderful inventions, been the most philanthropic, showing their superiority over others." Why slavery persists in the South it is not difficult to understand in the light of this sentiment. Only loony white men who speak through Heflin or suffer agony with Vardaman desire such plaudits even from sycophancy. From the beginning of time all races, at one hour and another, have been superior, as we judge qualities in man. That is why equality became the dead level in the hands of experience. Individually men are inferior and superior, nor time nor circumstance may change them. Tillmow, for example, is inferior and happy in the disease. We know the mark. In Tupelo gentlemen of the cloth with this Tillmow speak soft words and do well. The thrifty know their ground. When they reach Chicago, who but them can be heard in the fiery language of "rights"? The articulation of indignation in the coward is bo{{illegible}} only where it is safe to speak and have a thought. Flattery and fear walk together and slavery persists in their embrace. ------- //A Son of Arkansas// THE Arkansas senate, now all "white" where once, following the victory of liberty over slavery, it was all American, does well to honor Senator Joseph T. Robinson and call him chief. No higher compliment could be wished by that just and honorable man than to be considered by hs neighbors to me made of the stuff of American presidents. And he is indeed jacketed in respectable dignity and speaks often of idealistic matters in gracious and knowing terms. He is southern, but wears his misfortune as if the gods had not tricked him upon his nativity. live by assault, is, what of the standard maintained by Lincoln since 1854? The main point seems lost upon the disputants. That point is, For what was Lincoln established? Who established it? Who now maintains it? And does any change in its faculty, by addition or substraction, or or in its curriculum by spirit or book, mean the quitting of its well-being by the present authority which sustains it? Thoroughness for 70 years has been twin word with character at Lincoln. Its distinguished alumni is proof of a stern faithfulness to its aims. The despicability of pretension is a famous theme at Lincoln and true scholarship is nowhere in our country, whether in college of race or school of creed, more honored in the observance. Its faculty of only 26 and its student body of less than 400, emphasizes its sturdy zeal in the spirit of its founders. It was established as a leader training school. Teachers and preachers sound in the faith Lincoln sought first to anoint and dispatch to waiting and needy fields. Lincoln draws no line, except of good character and intentions, among its students. Although it lingers in the doctrine of the [?] to demand the right of scrutiny of schools and colleges should bear in mind that as we seek opportunity for our teachers we must be willing to take on responsibility for the maintenance of both faculty and school. Authority follows philanthropy and only those able to set up a college have the right of say-so in its conduct. We may appeal to reason. We may petition sympathy from the ear bent in kindness. We may knock upon the door in all expectancy and ask of patience its permission to do a task. We may take justice with us to the seats of power. And yet there will be no independence for us until we can ourselves support what we wish to control. We wish, as all who are ambitious for the Race must wish, that Negroes, if they can grasp the Lincoln spirit, will find places on the famous faculty of our oldest college, but we wish, above all, to keep Lincoln at peace with itself and remain the covenant between the Race and the Presbyterian church of the United States. We must not lose contact at a single point with the organized moral forces of our country. The President Goes Visiting MR. HOOVER needs rest, plenty of it, after having met two congresses. His decision to take to quiet southern waters for a cruise will meet the approval of the American people, who believe that the president who can withstand congress for two years is entitled to all of earth, air and sea in the care-free way. Two points on land Mr. Hoover plans to touch, Porto Rico and the Virgin islands. Porto Ricans are one branch of Uncle Sam's varying and varied family and the Virgin islanders another. Both islands will receive the president with open arms, and, likewise, open hands. Want and suffering have been spoken of as being abroad in both places, and stark poverty creeps around in the Virgin islands. Mr. Hoover wishes to see for himself. He wishes information under the eye rather than from doctored reports. Announcements proclaim that in Porto Rico the president will visit here and there, attend luncheons, receptions, and make himself at home with both Governor Roosevelt and followers of Robert Todd. San Juan will become the capital city. What Mr. Hoover will do in the Virgin islands has not been proclaimed. But the 23,000 natives, citizens without voice and taxpayers without hope, will welcome the president as if he came there also to visit around, take dinner with them and have them feel, as the Porto Ricans will feel, that they are a part of the government and agreeable to the social customs of the chief. But there is no Roosevelt in the Virgin islands. The exigencies of no war attached them to the republic. They came in by the cash register. They were brought and paid for. They have no part in their local government. And they are denied communion with Colored men in the United States who, except for bread and meat, are almost as bad off under Mr. Hoover as the Virgin islanders are. The Hampton Choir MUSIC lovers of Chicago crowded Orchestra hall Monday night to see the Hampton choir and listen to the enrapturing harmony w h i c h makes it famous on two continents. They also were there in response to the promise that they might see R. Nathaniel Dett, one of the great musical hearts of the period. The music lovers found generous compensation in a program that ran the depths and heights of music. They heard a chorus that encompassed all the soul of rhythm. Unaided, or maybe unannoyed by any instrument, this choir of natural song gave nature's voice its range. It was a night of voice. Dett, who ranks the most distinguished arrangers now living, and may take a place of renown as a choirmaster, proved himself to be a conductor of rare attainments. He has persuaded music of her secrets. But in that audience were hundreds who, though loving music and adoring harmony, used the compliment to pay tribute. Over and above the singers, who gave us perfection in ensemble, was Hampton, the living covenant, and Armstrong, who planted the new New England on the soil of Virginia, and, with Cravath, the establisher of Fisk, put self-respect back in the bosoms that had been degraded by bondage and the licentious depravity of slaveholders. Beyond the singers and the songs was Hampton, center of unrelenting Puritanism at work among the new Race. "Peter, Feed My Sheep," was sung in splendor by the choir. The shepherd and his spirit still live all through Hampton. Armstrong fed the sheep and nurtured the lambs. And the singers put in music the range and beauty, the power and the grandeur of Samuel Chapman Armstrong, one among the few immortals. Why Slavery Persists THE persistency of slavery below the Ohio is one of the phenomena of the age. The opening of Civil war is 70 years behind us, almost to the day. And nearing the day the Rebellion was put down 66 years ago. Education, that is, books and ever more books, has been at work since silence fell over the conflict. Churches are everywhere, more than in any other territory in the world. The South has more churches, white and black, more preachers, white and black, than England and France have combined. Railroads are as numerous there as nerves that stretch center and corner of the human body. And yet slavery persists and the spirit of liberty, that is, the manliness of manhood when mankind is at its best, seems farther away than when the great men who had endured slavery manipulated the reins of government as if slavery had never touched them. The attitude and conduct of the former slaves who, as proof of the capabilities of man unadorned and subjugated, rose and maintained themselves in thought and state, and the spiritual cowardice of the present age which knows freedom only to miss it, this attitude and the cowardice afford a comparison for study by the most erudite. Take one reason for the persistency of slavery and the fear of honest thought in the South, J. T. Tillmow, D.D>, LL.D., a Negro in quest of the comfort of print, writes to a daily newpaper conducted by white men in Tupelo, Miss., to say that Adam, the first man, was white, and therefore, Tupelo and Lee county Negroes should take Luke and Jesus at their word, and quit the field of struggle. The boast of Mississippi that it is the state of high intelligence suffers assault at the hands of this elder, doctor of things divine and doctor of laws, as conferred by the pen, with which his acquaintance is not as long as the jim-swinger. There is a passage from the essay by Till- mow that scandalizes the Negro in Mississippi, takes hope out of the heart of every youth and comforts the souls that struggle still to put slavery back whence it was overthrown. Intelligent white people, if they read the lines, (Continued on Column 7) Henry Brown WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY [The Chicago Defender does not vouch for the authenticity or truthfulness of letters printed in this column nor do letters contained herein express opinions or views of the Defender. All letters must be signed with name and address of writer. They must be confined to 250 words.] TO THE RESCUE OF DR. WOODSON Editor, The Chicago Defender: I have just read your very appropriate editorial anent Dr. Carter G. Woodson, noted race historian. Needless to say that it is apparent to all who have any appreciable interest in the historical background of the race that Dr. Woodson is performing a noble task. The Negro does not know his own history, and certainly, he cannot learn it as taught in the schools of today. In fact, he actually unlearns it. I believe that whatever has been lost in funds contributed for research work because of his revealig the facts as they obtain [?] race history as taught, (or [?er not taught) it should be made up by those who appreciate race history as outlined by so noted an educator. I understand that approximately $5,000 have been lopped off, and I take this method of showing the way to make up the deficit by donating the sum of one dollar towards the amount. I am sure that if 4999 of the million or more readers of your most estimable paper will do likewise–and it can be done–the five thousand dollars will be forthcoming. Respectfully, E. J. MOORE, Los Angeles, Calif., March 1, 1931. COMMUNISM AS A PANACEA OF ALL OUR ILLS Editor of the W. G. W.: The mammoth parade fostered by communism, supposedly in the interest of unemployment, is just so must waster energy. And the proposed legislation is just so much pending mythism. There is no salvation in communism. This aggregate of cruelties and injustices, which have followed each succeeding generation will not conform to the theory of communism, nor does communism create providence or mitigate improvidence. Communism knows no trick by which it can break through concrete antipathy and purge human hearts of unfairness. Communism is not the solution, legislation also has its limitations, yes the boundary of legislation is fixed. By legislation we cannot annilate indolence. By legislation we cannot bridge the great divide. The division of morals, and of intellect which exist amongst peoples. We cannot legislate the return of seasons, neither can we legislate the return of prosperity, and in the depths of dismal depression or in the radiance of abundant prosperity we cannot by legislation disrobe ambition of the garments of greed, discrimination and inhumanity and invest him with the immaculate garments of munificence, equality and justice. Yes the boundary of legislation is established. Yet when legislation reaches its limit here is where the doctrine of the brotherhood of man begins operation. If it fails to function, there must be that stimulation of the spirit, of indissoluble cohesion of self and mutual help to effect a constructive and lasting relief. Mammoth parades, with blatancy and buttons are not stimulating, but rather they are stifling, and more than that they sap initiative and patriotism and reduce individuals to a state of comatose pismires looking for a dole. Thank you, Mr. Editor, BARNEY E. PAGE. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS The People of My Choice by WILLIAM HENRY HUFF There's nothing to that something Which we call haughty pride And that's sufficient reason It should be lain aside. It is a peace disturber A breeding germ of strife It always ends in chaos And bars a peaceful life. There's nothing to the notion One has to be a snob But thoughts diseased and wicked The kind that's in a mob. Now, what made him so holy? The answer we await Who sat him up as keeper Of heaven's pearly gate? How can one help the lowly By turning up his nose? Does this make him their hero Or does it make him foes? Thank God the mass are waking They're lifting up their heads For them the day is breaking They rising form their bed. To George I would thou know thy worth to me. Know I feel thy true comraderie. Know 'tis joy to touch thy hand, Know and feel you understand. Know that bliss is always mine, To touch my goblet of love to thine. ALBERTA, K. K. OF KETUCKY. GOSH, THIS HURTS ME WORS'N IT DOES YOU! Dear Dewey R.: I assure you that this–whatever you decide to call it –is written with malice towards none and love for the whole gang and tears for the strayed, lost or stolen dream book that somehow has remained that. Did I not offer my coop? Even to the half of my kingdom– the honest sweat of my brow is mixed with the manly tears that flow unbrushed and unashamedly down my unshaven cheek–and too, why must I suffer? Is it not true that you have found me submissive and faithful, ever on hand–or is it that's the reason you can't forgive me–my dear Dewey know this, I am as easy to lose as, well the king's horses–did you gaze on the talk of the ghost and have murder in your heart–you should know that I am not responsible–be reasonable and also lenient–then too you will be surprised to know that I have some friends (honest) and–well I will confess all! I am holding their money for the Line Book! That's how bad it's [war?ed]–I mean I was holding the money! Should you read where they have caught me– I am forced to lay full blame on you Dewey, though it hurts me! This in saddened conclusion I take as my theme song, per Line Book–"When my hair is turned to silver–I will love you just the same!" C. [POW?LL] DE SHONG. [Hom?] Sans adornment is she, plain, simple –nature's mold only the beauty of great liberality no face of beauty one might behold. Not an artist model who might pose for some painter that you might see her charms or likeness to the rose, that so freshens life's memory. Unnoticed she goes her way, seldom having attentive evening calls no royal knights or lover gay care to lead her through quiet halls yet soon as it were, of unselfishness, the god of an infinite grace, the heights supreme, of nobleness she needs no beauty of the face. A heart that knows only how to expand when the weeds of friendship of duty cry a soul as broad as the desert sand loyal, true, she standeth by deeming it just, and nothing less than a part of other woes to share, for behind that seeming mask of ugliness hides an earthly angel there. How often then, unthinkingly we lose that which we would most possess, failing in the things we chose though passing God's greatest gem of loveliness. JUST ME. No, we haven't [?] an income tax report yet because we are still waiting for the government to pay us what it owes us on our last year's report DEWEY R. From the Chicago Defender's Columns 15 YEARS AGO MARCH 18, 1916 HACHITA, N. M. – The Tenth United States cavalry, accompanied by the Seventh cavalry, Battery B of the Sixth field artillery, and four companies of the 11th infantry, a detachment of hospital and signal corps, moved across the border Wednesday. Two pack trains of 60 mules each, two auto truck trains, and an automobile supply train followed. This entire column was under the command of Colonel Dodd. The infantry will hold the border while the cavalry will attack. CHICAGO.–The Eighth regiment, I. N. G., is ready for the fray. Colonel Dennison and his staff are ready to move within 24 hours. The captains have been busy recruiting their companies to full war strength. The news that Governor Dunne had tendered the entire state troops to President Wilson, especially the first brigade, in which the eighth is, was met with hearty approval. NEW ORLEANS.–The Flint Medical college and the Sarah Goodrich Nurses Training school combined sometime ago, and now this city has a first-class hospital with nurse training attached. VALDOSTA, Ga.– Will Clark, a reader of The Chicago Defender, has made a record for himself. He defended himself and thereby defended the Race. It is the same of story. A white man wanted to get the best of a Race man and the Race man won out. 10 YEARS AGO MARCH 19, 1921 TUSKEGEE, Ala.–Armed with revolvers, bludgeons and ropes, and within site of the famous institution founded by the late Booker T. Washington, a mob of white farmers charged the cabin occupied by Robert West, 88, seized him and his son, George West, and forced Mrs. Beckie West, 50, and Agnew West, 23 years old, to flee to the woods for safety. A search of the woods was made by members of the mob, but the woman and her son, after wading through creeks, escaped and hid in a barn on the outskirts of the city. Shots were fired at them as they left the rear door of their cabin. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio.–In anticipation of further rioting here, following the outbreaks Saturday night, three companies of Ohio national guardsmen, consisting of 150 officers and men, were on duty today with headquarters at the city hall. The troops have been stationed here merely to aid local authorities to maintain order, if not being necessary to establish martial law. CHICAGO.–The congregation of Ebenezer Baptist church, 35th and Dearborn Sts., of which the late Rev. John F. Thomas was pastor, met in a regular church meeting Monday evening and called Rev. Charles H. Clark of the Mt. Olivet Baptist church of Nashville, Tenn., to fill the place made vacant by Rev. Thomas' death. 5 YEARS AGO MARCH 20, 1926 WASHINGTON, D.C.–Hon. James A. Cobb, prominent Washington attorney, whose nomination to fill the vacancy left by the death of the late Judge Terrell, was sent to the senate Monday, was confirmed by that body on Wednesday. RICHMOND, Va.–The general assembly of Virginia adopted last week the measure introduced by Delegate Massenburg of Hampton providing for the compulsory separation of the races in places of public assembly, including chapels and assembly halls of schools, public and private. OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss.–Closely guarded and using an assumed name. Leonard Kip Rhinelander and his New York attorney, Leon R. Jacobs, were found hiding here when publicity was occasioned through a controversy between Jacobs and E. E. Lee, a prominent Ocean Springs business man. considerably supset. These signs appear before a tooth can be made out by pressing on the gum and the child is fretful and feverish, the nourishment should be temporarily reduced. The breastfed baby can be given one ounce of boiled water immediately after such feeding. For the bottle-fed baby, dilute the food with from one-fourth to one-third boiled water. The baby's gums may be gently rubbed by the mother or nurse three or four times a day, with the finger covered with a clean towel. If the baby enjoys biting on a soft rubber ring, there is no objection to this– but do not use a thimble or any hard substance in an attempt to rub the tooth through. This latter method may make the condition worse by causing inflammation of the gums. Lancing of the gums to let the tooth through is an operation that is seldom necessary. The point to remember about teething troubles is that troubles of this sort are the exception rather than the rule. Almost always, where symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting arise, it will be found that causes other than cutting of teeth are bringing them on. Teething may be delayed or the teeth may come in irregularly or decaying rapidly. Early decay of the teeth makes the existence of rickets seem probable, though ill health from other causes may act the same way. It occasionally happens that the first or second teeth are never cut. Medicine Valueless in Teething The mother cannot do much to help her baby cut its teeth. It is a natural act that will come of its own volition. Applying medicines to the gums at this period is of no value reducing the pain. In fact, it is risky, as the baby may swallow enough to make it ill. Teething is one of the superstitions accompanying child illnesses that we knew nothing about a generation ago. We are now aware that what is often thought of as teething trouble may be a cold or disturbance in the stomach or intestine. For this reason, it is always advisable to consult a physician when the child is ill–whether or not you think the cause is teething. The editor of The Lancet, the leading medical journal in England, says: "The firm belief among the laity of all classes that the baby must be more or less ill whenever he is cutting a tooth has led, even among the best intentioned mothers, to an enormous amount of neglect of the first symptoms of illness in infants, and that is the way thousands of infants lives are sacrificed to the fetish of teething." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Has "Dry Socket" Q.–I have been having trouble with a "dry socket," Will you please tell me what it is and what I can do to cure it.–E. W. A.–A "dry socket" is the opening in the process after the tooth is extracted, which remains free from bolod. It usually occurs in cases of diseased teeth where the bone around them has become so compressed that there is very little flow of blood. These cases are usually painful and slow to heal. They need care by the dentist as the ordinary home treatment will do no good. Rubber Tires and Rubber Plates Q.–(1) I am curious to know how the rubber in plates is hardened. (2) Is the same kind of rubber used in plates as in tires?–A. G. H. A.–(1) Pure rubber gum plus sulphur heat make the hard rubber in dental plates. (2) Yes. The difference in character lies in the proportion of sulphur and the degree and amount of heat. Not Necessary to Kill Nerve Q.–In putting on a bridge, is it necessary for the dentist to kill the nerve when the teeth are perfectly healthy?–B. R. A.–It is not necessary to kill the nerve. Comfortable and satisfactory bridges can be built for even the most difficult cases by the exercise of a little patience and ingenuity. Teeth of Flying Acrobats Q.–My friend and I were having an argument about acrobats who do stunts with their teeth. Can you tell us whether this harmful or beneficial to the teeth?–T. O. A.–Harmful. Teeth are made to chew and help masticate food. We know of four cases where the mouth hard been practically shattered because of such acrobatic use. Any stunt, performed with the teeth by anymore, which taxes the normal solidity of the teeth in their foundations, may be classed as harmful. Not because ignorance did write but th[?] intelligence might have read do we quote [th?] fawner's refrain: "The white people hav been superior to all others from the beginnin of time. They have made the greatest governments, produced the finest literature ; handled the great world affairs. Produced the most wonderful inventions, been the most philanthropic, showing their superiority over other." Why slavery persists in the South it is not difficult to understand in the light of this sentiment. Only looney white mean who speak through Heflin or suffer agony with Vardaman desire such plaudits even from sycophancy. From the beginning of time all races, at one hour and another, have been superior, as we judge qualities in man. That is why equality became the dead level in the hands of experience. Individually men are inferior and superior, nor time nor circumstance may change them. Tillmow, for example, is inferior and happy in the disease. We know the mark. In Tupelo gentlemen of the cloth with this Tillmow speak soft words and do well. The thrifty know their ground. When they reach Chicago, who but them can be heard in the fiery language of "rights"? The articulation of indignation in the coward is bo only where it is safe to speak and have a thought. Flattery and fear walk together and slavery persists in their embrace. A Son of Arkansas THE Arkansas senate, now all "white" where once, following the victory of liberty over slavery, it was all American, does well to honor Senator Joseph T. Robinson and call him chief. No higher compliment could be wished by that just and honorable man than to be considered by his neighbors to be made of the stuff of American presidents. And he is indeed jacketed in respectable dignity and speaks often of idealistic matters in gracious and knowing terms. He is southern, but wears his misfortune as if the gods had not tricked him upon his nativity. His state, of which the state senate is agent, presents him as worthy of the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It declaims in the warm language of the region, that he would bring to the highest office much that once it did boast where now confusion doth walk arm and arm with indecision. In 1928 Mr. Robinson ducked the Houston convention of his party, over which he held the gavel, when his attuned ear caught the whisper sweet and low that he would be "the sparring partner" to Alfred E. Smith, to use the classic language of that figure both of interest and gripping speech. Let him step up in 1932, says Arkansas. And so say all who live by the bread of hope. Mr. Robinson should hold to the example of Woodrow Wilson, if in his breast burns the fire of noble ambition. Born in Virginia, Mr. Wilson knew that the White House, though across the Potomac, was worlds away to him. So off to New Jersey he took himself and then began his march, not as from Virginia, but as from a free state and respectable. Pretension did serve him well. Arkansas is still out of the Union, though attached to its territory and authority. It is Jim Crow. It is Disfranchisement by Fear. It is Lynching Ground. It is Elaine and Helena. It is Double Standard in Education. It is the Ghost of Jefferson David. Arkansas is all that the nation labors not to be. It struggles to live in the Confederacy while walking in the Union. Before a son of that state, even though he comes in the brightest regalia of anointed genius, can hope to excel among freemen, Arkansas must be born again. OTHER PAPERS SAY HARDLY AN ANTILYCHING BILL {Des Moines Tribune-Capital} The Missouri house of representatives, sitting at Jefferson City, is considering antilynching bills, so-called, that have been introduced as a result of the recent Maryville lynching. The latest of these bills would require any county in which a lynching occurs to pay $10,000 to the family of the victim. That is a reasonable measure. But why call it an antilynching bill? Unless there is also to be an enforcement of perfectly valid existing laws against lynching (the laws against murder) this new one would more fairly be called a county privilege tax. IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER VOL., XXXIV, NO. 52 WASHINGTON, DC, SATURDA[Y] JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL HONORED A Brilliant Gathering. Many New Dances OVER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DO HIM HONOR On Friday evening, May 29, social Washington tendered to Judge Robert H. Terrell a reception in his honor. The event took place at Odd Fellows' Hall, which was brilliantly decorated with flags, bunting and palms. Two hundred and fifty of the leading men and women of the community were present—the ladies elegantly gowned, the gentlemen in evening dress. The affair was brilliant because it was carried forward by the efficient hands of a managing committee which overlooked no detail which could contribute to the joy and comfort of all present. It was an event long to be remembered, and the wonderful music of "Wooding's Smart Set Band" was one of the dominant features of a highly enjoyable evening. From 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock congratulations were extended to Judge and Mrs. Terrell. From 9:30 to 10:45 addresses were delivered by selected speakers, and from 10:45 to the 'we sma' hours" a remarkably fine dance program was played from the first to the last number. No more brilliant gathering of the leading folks of the community has ever taken place in this city and one marked feature of the event was the manifest good feeling present in which all shared. The confirmation of Judge Terrell by the United States Senate has been fittingly honored by the people whom he represents on the bench, and the social season has been closed with a brilliant climax. That part of the program which consisted of speech making was admirably conducted. Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce spoke on "The Local Aspects of Judge Terrell's Appointment." The Hon. John C. Dancy addressed himself to "The National Significance of Judge Terrell's Appointment." Then followed the "Response by Judge Terrell. Lieutenant Thomas H. R. Clarke was the master of ceremonies. The speeches were eloquent and reflected the sentiment of all present. Mr. M. Grant Lucas presented Judge Terrell with a gavel made of Cedar from "'Cedar Hill," the home of the illustrious Frederick Douglas. Mr. Jesse Powell, the florist, presented Judge Terrell with a bunch of American Beauty roses, one of the largest and finest floral pieces of this nature ever given an individual in this city. The Managing Committee were: [?] [Col.] Arthur Brooks, Hon Wm H. mond W. Scott, H. C. Scurlock, Walter J. Singleton, John W. F. Smith, Ralph B. Stewart, Andrew J. Thomas, Neval H. Thomas, H. C. Tyson, J. E. Walker, Thomas Walker, W. A. Warfield, David Warner, Samuel W. Watson, J. C. Waters, Jr., Charles I. West, Garnet C. Wilkinson, E. C. Williston, E. D. Williston, F. Finley Wilson, C. S. Wormley, George Young. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin O. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carter, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Baltimore, Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Pride, Hon. H. L. Johnson, Mrs. M. E. Tucker, Miss Essie Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. H. Terrell, Mrs. Parks and daughters, Misses Jessie and Ardella Parks, Miss Pearlie Lewis, Miss Harriet Shadd, Miss Bessie Miller, Miss Eva Ross, Mrs. Chas. E. Hall, Miss Braxton, Miss Lois Hall, Mrs. Bismarck Pinchback, Mrs. Julia P. H. Coleman, Mrs. Josephine Kenny, Mrs. Jessie Powell, Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, Mrs. A. P. Albert, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. R. C. Bruce, Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Miss Haley, Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland, Mrs. R. F. Fortune, Mrs. Wm. Jennifer, Mrs. Lewis Johnson, Mrs. M. Grant Lucas, Mrs. F. H. Murray, Mrs. Arthur Newman, Mrs. J. E. Walker, Mrs. Lydia Watson, Miss Florence Brooks, Mrs. E. D. Williston, Mrs. H. E. Scurlock, Miss Julia Brooks, Mrs. Arthur Brooks, Mr. Clark and wife, Mrs. Anita Clark, Mrs. Wm. H. Clifford, Mrs. A. O. Stafford, Mrs. A. Lincoln Brown, Miss Marie James, Mrs. J. C. Burls, Mrs. C. W. Childs, Miss Rosa Childs, Miss Louise Howard, Mrs. Armond W. Scott, Mrs. Walter Singleton, Mrs. Sadie Holly, Mrs. C. I. West, Mrs. Edith Minton, Mrs. Alice Francis, Miss Eva Lucas, Miss Ella Perry. --------------------------------- REMARKS BY ROBERT H. TERRELL May 29, 1914. Ladies and Gentlemen: It would take more than the mere conventionalities of speech to express my gratitude to you for the honor that you have done me tonight. For there is an indefinable something in the sentiment that prompts this occasion that cannot find its full measure of praise in words, however eloquently they may be spoken. I thank you, gentlemen of the Committee especially for all that you have done to bring this event to a completion altogether so admirable in itself, so fully complimentary to me, and more than all that, so worthy of the great and, I hope, substantial victory which our race has just won over the forces of oppression and repression—forces that would block our way to the goal sought by all men in our republic— the attainment and retention of all of those rights that are enjoyed and freely exercised by every other element in our cosmopolitan citizenship. A few years ago we celebrated in this country the 300th anniversary of the first settlement of white men in America. A few years hence will bring us upon another ter-centennial —the 300th anniversary of the introduction of slavery into the American colonies. And singularly enough, Jamestown, in Virginia, was the scene of both of these historic events. it would be a part of wisdom for us to be patient with ourselves and view our faults with a reasonable charity. For which one of you, who in 1865 stood upon the ruins of the late slave States and beheld the prostrate form of the quondam master, if asked, "What of the future?" would have said that within a dozen years from that time the ex-slave would be a United States Senator, a member of the National House of Representatives, a governor of a State and a foreign minister? And whose prophetic soul could have peered into the future still further and foretold that in a short period of time this same ex-slave would be cast down from his lofty place in the State, stripped of his newly acquired dignities and honors, oppressed, hated, persecuted and even denied the protection of the laws of his country? Yet this was the fact. Such a career of contrast for a people has no parallel in history. Yet I believe that in no far distant day the Negro will come to the front along lines of a natural development, a better and stronger man. For the laws which determine the destinies of individuals, aces, and nations are impartial and eternal. The black man has done well under the old leadership, which was intense in purpose and strong in action, [Photo caption] EX-PRESIDENT WM. H[OWARD TAFT] Who is willing to join forces with the Progre President. See edito On Friday evening, May 29, social Washington tendered to Judge Robert H. Terrell a reception in his honor. The event took place at Odd Fellows' Hall, which was brilliantly decorated with flags, bunting and palms. Two hundred and fifty of the leading men and women of the community were present—the ladies elegantly gowned, the gentlemen in evening dress. The affair was brilliant because it was carried forward by the efficient hands of a managing committee which overlooked no detail which could contribute to the joy and comfort of all present. It was an event long to be remembered, and the wonderful music of "Wooding's Smart Set Band" was one of the dominant features of a highly enjoyable evening. From 8:30 to 9:30 o'clock congratulations were extended to Judge and Mrs. Terrell. From 9:30 to 10:45 addresses were delivered by selected speakers, and from 10:45 to the 'we sma' hours" a remarkably fine dance program was played from the first to the last number. No more brilliant gathering of the leading folks of the community has ever taken place in this city and one marked feature of the event was the manifest good feeling present in which all shared. The confirmation of Judge Terrell by the United States Senate has been fittingly honored by the people whom he represents on the bench, and the social season has been closed with a brilliant climax. That part of the program which consisted of speech making was admirably conducted. Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce spoke of "The Local Aspects of Judge Terrell's Appointment." The Hon. John C. Dancy addressed himself to "The National Significance of Judge Terrell's Appointment." Then followed the "Response by Judge Terrell. Lieutenant Thomas H. R. Clarke was the master of ceremonies. The speeches were eloquent and reflected the sentiment of all present. Mr. M. Grant Lucas presented Judge Terrell with a gavel made of Cedar from "'Cedar Hill," the home of the illustrious Frederick Douglas. Mr. Jesse Powell, the florist, presented Judge Terrell with a bunch of American Beauty roses, one of the largest and finest floral pieces of this nature ever given an individual in this city. The Managing Committee were: Lt. Col. Arthur Brooks, Hon. Wm H. Clffiord, Mr. A. O. Stafford, Mr. Chas. E. Hall, Lieut. Thos. H. R. Clarke. JUDGE R. H. TERRELL. The following composed the Reception Committee: A. P. Albert, Wyatt Archer, Wm. L. Board, A. Lincoln Brown, Roscoe C. Bruce, J. C. Burlls, Geo. W. Cabaniss, W. Calvin Chase, C. W. Childs, Jas. A. Cobb, Geo. F. Collins, John E. Collins, W. H. Conn, Geo. W. Cook, J. W. Cromwell, Chas. E. Curry, A. M. Curtis, John C. Dancy, Charles R. Douglass, S. M. Dudley, M. O. Dumas, W. B. Evans, R. F. Fortune, H. W. Freeman, A. S. Gray, James W. Gray, Archibald H. Grimke, Chas. L. Harris, R. B. Henderson, W. J. Howard, Jr., Geo. W. Jackson, William Jennifer, Lewis Johnson, Thomas L. Jones, C. B. Lee.J. Henry Lewis, W. S. Lofton, M. Grant Lucas, Whitfield McKinlay, W. H. J. Malvin, Chas. H. Marshall, Zeph P. Moore, F. H. M. Murray, George W. Murray, John C. Nalle, Arthur C. Newman, F. E. Parks, John H. Paynter, P. B. S. Pinchback, R. H. Rutherford, Ar- Parks and daughters, Misses Jessie and Ardella Parks, Miss Pearlie Lewis, Miss Harriet Shadd, Miss Bessie Miller, Miss Eva Ross, Mrs. Chas. E. Hall, Miss Braxton, Miss Lois Hall, Mrs. Bismarck Pinchback, Mrs. Julia P. H. Coleman, Mrs. Josephine Kenny, Mrs. Jessie Powell, Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, Mrs. A. P. Albert, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. R. C. Bruce, Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Miss Haley, Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland, Mrs. R. F. Fortune, Mrs. Wm. Jennifer, Mrs. Lewis Johnson, Mrs. M. Grant Lucas, Mrs. F. H. Murray, Mrs. Arthur Newman, Mrs. J. E. Walker, Mrs. Lydia Watson, Miss Florence Brooks, Mrs. E. D. Williston, Mrs. H. E. Scurlock, Miss Julia Brooks, Mrs. Arthur Brooks, Mr. Clark and wife, Mrs. Anita Clark, Mrs. Wm. H. Clifford, Mrs. A. O. Stafford, Mrs. A. Lincoln Brown, Miss Marie James, Mrs. J. C. Burls, Mrs. C. W. Childs, Miss Rosa Childs, Miss Louise Howard, Mrs. Armond W. Scott, Mrs. Walter Singleton, Mrs. Sadie Holly, Mrs. C. I. West, Mrs. Edith Minton, Mrs. Alice Francis, Miss Eva Lucas, Miss Ella Perry. —— REMARKS BY ROBERT H. TERRELL. May 29, 1914. Ladies and Gentlemen: It would take more than the mere conventionalities of speech to express my gratitude to you for the honor that you have done me tonight. For there is an indefinable something in the sentiment that prompts this occasion that cannot find its full measure of praise in words, however eloquently they may be spoken. I thank you, gentlemen of the Committee especially, for all that you have done to bring this event to a completion altogether so admirable in itself, so fully complimentary to me, and more than all that, so worthy of the great and, I hope, substantial victory which our race has just won over the forces of oppression and repression—forces that would block our way to the goal sought by all men in our republic—the attainment and retention of all of those rights that are enjoyed and freely exercised by every other element in our cosmopolitan citizenship. A few years ago we celebrated in this country the 300th anniversary of the first settlement of white men in America. A few years hence will bring us upon another ter-centennial—the 300th anniversary of the introduction of slavery into the American colonies. And singularly enough, Jamestown, in Virginia, was the scene of both of these historic events. The Negro has advanced an immeasurable distance since his ancestors first set foot on American soil. From 1619 to 1862 he yielded his liberty and gave his toil unrequited to a master; his body and his intellect he gave over to an institution that would have ground to powder a less sturdy people. He has done more than simply survive these hard and exacting demands of American civilization in all of its better forms. His speech is the same as that of the white American, his is the same religious faith that it must follow that his aspirations and ideals are similar to those of his white brother; and he will not be denied the fulfillment and satisfaction of his yearnings and ambitions without protest that is in keeping with the dignity and courage of a freeman and a full fledged citizen. Back in the days of reconstruction, which even some thoughtless men of our own race now affect to despise and to declare were harmful to us, the great statesman of the country said that freedom for the Negro without the ballot would be the merest mockery. And when Negro suffrage was opposed on the floor of the Senate, Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, in one of his bold and stirring speeches said, "I have a contempt. I cannot name, for the man who will contend for rights for himself that he will not award to every body else." Shall we then demand less for ourselves than our friends have demanded and are today demanding for us? It is true that the black man's career on this continent has been marvelous in many particulars—marvelous in its dissimilarity to that of all other races and marvelous in its striking contrasts. To have been transformed from a slave to a freeman almost in a day was a wonderful metamorphis! The tremendous influences of more than two centuries of bondage and oppression was bound to leave some unfavorable impression on the character of its victims. Therefore when we study our problems we must be frank with ourselves, otherwise we shall not be able to find for it that solution so devoutly to be wished. Our weaknesses grow out of conditions that are not the creations of a night, nor can they be swept away by the efforts of day. When we consider this it seems to me that EX-PRESIDENT WM. H. Who is willing to join forces with the Progres President. See edito] it would be part of wisdom for us to be patient with ourselves and view our faults with a reasonable charity. For which one of you, who in 1865 stood upon the ruins of the late slave States and beheld the prostrate form of the quondam master, if asked, "What of the future?" would have said that within a dozen years from that time the ex=slave would be a United States Senator, a member of the National House of Representatives, a governor of a State and a foreign minister? And whose prophetic soul could have peered into the future still further and foretold that in a short period of time this same ex-slave would be cast down from his lofty place in the State, stripped of his newly acquired dignities and honors, oppressed, hated, persecuted and even denied the protection of the laws of his country? Yet this was the fact. Such a career of contrast for a people has no parallel in history. Yet I believe that in no far distant day the Negro will come to the front along lines of a natural development, a better and stronger man. For the laws which determine the destinies of individuals, races, and nations are impartial and eternal. The black man has done well under the old leadership, which was intense in purpose and strong in action, but for obvious reasons could not get a substantial footing in our great scheme of government. But a new leadership is now asserting itself-a leadership composed of men trained in the best schools of the world, able to study and dissect abstruse as well as practical governmental problems. This leadership is not only demanding for the people untrammeled rights at the ballot box, but it is also laying stress on the necessity of becoming a part of the great industrial development in this mighty, active and sleepless civilization that makes our country a powerful and dominating influence in markets of the world. It is true that there are at present conditions in this country growing our of discriminations on account of race which are not favorable to us as a people, yet I believe that our day has dawned and our sun has once come above the horizon it will keep its course on the fullness of noonday. Our illustrious kinsman, Frederick Douglass once said, "Take courage from the example of all religious denominations that have sprung up since Martin Luther. Each in its turn has been oppressed and persecuted. Yet all have in turn have conquered the prejudice and hate of their surroundings. Greatness does not come to any people of flowery beds of ease. We must fight to win the prize. No people to whom liberty is given can hold it so firmly or wear it so grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant. The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storms as well as in sunshine." In conclusion let me say again that I thank you for this evidence of your friendship. I appreciate deeply the words of approval that have fallen from the lips of those who have spoken. And if I have reflected any credit upon the colored people of the country by my work as a magistrate in the years that have passed, I am particularly proud of the fact that you here at my home should regard that work as worthy of your consideration and a justification of this splendid —— (Continued to page 5.) U.S. MEDIATORS ARE BROAD MINDED Why Lamar and Lehmann Were Selected by President. BOTH EXCELLENT LAWYERS Men Able to Handle Delicate Legal Questions as Well as Show Patience and Diplomacy Were Needed, and Wilson Named Prominent Attorneys For the Positions. Niagara Falls. -When President Wilson was casting about for two men to represent the United States government at the mediation conference on the Mexican situation he made up his mind that an essential qualification of this government's representatives was a masterful knowledge of law. He felt at that time that the conference might be long drawn out and that the mediators and the men whom this country and Mexico named to guard their respective interests would be confronted almost daily with legal problems of a more or less intricate nature. Furthermore, he felt that the men he selected must possess broad gauged [?] 1914, by American Press Association JUSTICE LAMAR (TOP) AND F.W. LEHMANN (BELOW) minds which would be able to grasp the problems of diplomacy as well as those of the law. Consequently be selected two men who so far in their careers have advanced solely on their own merits as lawyers of extraordinary ability and men of unusual poise. One of them has arisen to the highest pinnacle of his profession, a position on the supreme bench of the United States. FORTUNE FOR EDUCATOR. Is Notified That He Is one of Three Heirs to $25,000,000 Estate. Lawrence, Kan. -Being the wealthiest schoolteacher in the United States is the situation which has been forced upon Professor E. M. Wollank of the Pittsburgh Normal school, who has been notified that an estate of $25,000,000 has been left to him and his son and a Louisiana banker. The fortune was left by a great-uncle who died several years ago in Berlin. The will provided the money go to the male descendants of the Wollank line. Professor Wollank, his son and a banker of Delhi, La., are the only heirs, and each will get one-third of the estate. "Of course I will be glad to get the money," Professor Wollank said, "but I intend to keep on teaching school." Professor Wollank has been at the normal school five yeas. He is a teacher of languages and is a widower. _____ GOSPEL AUTOS IN CHICAGO Will Try to Reclaim Wealthy as Well as Penniless "Savages." Chicago - Gospel automobiles were put into service here on the theory that there were more "religious savages" in Chicago than in "darkest Africa." Moody Bible Institute dedicated the first of several such gospel autos withich will tour Chicago. The speakers will consider the wealthiest residence districts and the poorest and will work in both. Five hundred men and women will take turns preaching every night for weeks, first in ghetto districts, then along the lake shore. "We expect the wealthy will listen to the sermons just the same as the poorer people," said the Rev. W.W. Ketchum, who preached a crowd at North Clark and West Division streets. _____ CONVICT MAY HARVEST CROP. Kansas Governor Paroles Man Whose Family Needs Him. Topeka, Kan. - Governor Hodges granted a parole of sixty days to W.F. Richards, a prisoner at the state penitentiary, so Richards might go to his home in Saline county and harvest his wheat crop. Richards entered prison last January under a sentence of from one to five years for selling mortgaged property. He was heavily in debt and, according to reports to the governor, his family has been dependent upon neighbors. Friends recently informed the governor the wheat which Richards planted last fall promised to yield an abundant crop. The governor decided the family needed Richards for the next sixty days more that the state of Kansas did. _____ CUT OUT BREAKFAST TWENTY YEARS AGO _____ Hopeless Invalid Then, Now Haskell is Robust at 74. _____ Norwich, Conn. - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Courtney Haskell have just been celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their adoption of a "no breakfast" rule. Flaky rolls, fragrant coffee, crisp bacon and eggs and delicately browned griddlecakes may have tempted them to break the rule, but they declare they have never _____ 16,000,000 SEE MOVIES EACH DAY. _____ Congress May Pass Censorship Law this Season. _____ TO AFFECT 18,000 THEATERS Film Makers Protest, Saying Their Products Are Good - Advocates of Proposed Measure Say Children Ae Led Into Crime by Some Photo Plays. Some States Censor All Reels. Washington. - Sixteen million persons daily attend the 18,000 moving picture theaters now in operation in the United States. A large portion of the patrons are children. There are approximately 20,000,000 school children in the United States. The attendance of the picture shows, therefore, represents four-fifths of the daily enrollment of the public schools and far exceeds that reported by churches, libraries and other institutions of human betterment. These facts, or what are represented to be facts, were brought out before the house committee on education. The committee has under consideration a bill to establish a federal censorship commission over moving pictures. The measure has strong support, and the chances are that it will be enacted into law at this session of congress. It has been indorsed by clergymen, educators and some moving picture exhibitors. Other exhibitors oppose it on the ground that film makers censor their product and that federal censorship would interfere with the business. Another objection urged against the bill is that its passage might serve as a precedent for legislation abridging the liberty of the press. Those who voice this objection argue that if the federal government undertakes to censor moving pictures it may extend the authority to printed matter. Advocates of federal censorship of moving pictures say that these exhibitions are hurtful or beneficial to the youthful mind according to their character. It is asserted that many crimes have been traced to children who had witnessed debasing scenes in moving picture houses. For this reason it is argued that competent inspection and effective censorship of films are needed. The two sides of the story were told in the house committee. "Many parts of moving picture exhibitions are perfectly proper," said the Rev. H. N. Pringle, assistant superintendent of the international reform bureau. "Other parts may be objectionable because they present at times pictures of murders, robberies, holdups, assaults, burglaries and nearly the who catalogue of crimes. "Every few days you may see in the newspapers allusions by criminal court judges to the connection between juvenile crime and the demoralizing presentations just mentioned. This bill proposes the examination and censorship of picture films so that tainted and diseased amusement may not be sent out from about fifty film manufacturing firms and importing firms to nearly 20,000 moving picture theaters to injure millions of immature persons who c 1914, By American Press Association. JUSTICE LAMAR (TOP) AND F.W. LEHMANN (BELOW) minds which would be able to grasp the problems of diplomacy as well as those of the law. Consequently he selected two men who so far in their careers have advanced solely on their own merits as lawyers of extraordinary ability and men of unusual poise. One of them has arisen to the highest pinnacle of his profession. a position on the supreme bench of the United States. The other is considered by a majority of the members of the supreme court to be the ablest lawyer practicing before that tribunal. One of them, Joseph Rucker Lamar, associate judge of the United States supreme court, is a Georgian by birth, a southerner of southerners and a member of one of the most dintinguished families in the country--a family which has given many strong men to public life. The other is a native of Prussia, who came to this country as a child and spend his early life in Iowa. Catching him when he was young, the great middle west put its stamp on him forever, and any one would now recognize Frederick William Lehmann as a typical citizen of that section of the country. As in their origin Uncle Sam's two representatives at the Niagara conference are totally dissimilar, so are they utterly unlike in personal appearance. Justice Lamar is tall, angular, and austere looking. Mr. Lehmann is short, stocky and extremely jovial looking. The dissimilarity between the two men really ends with their origin and early training, for, while their outward appearance indicates that they are different in nature and general makeup, the fact is that their natures are really quite similar. Mr. Lehmann indicates in every movement and expression that he is genial, good tempered and fond of the society of his fellow men. Justice Lamar is the same sort of man, but does not look it. Both are full of life and devoted to social intercourse. In the matter of their work and their careers they have reached the same point by different routes. Although one of the youngest members of the supreme court, Justice Lamar is noted for the lucidity of his opinions, the depth of his thought and the literary style with which he writes on legal topics. Mr. Lehmann is noted for his clarity of thought, the almost tender care with which he prepares a case and the masterful manner in which he presents it before the higher judicial tribunals of the country. [] every night for weeks, first in ghetto districts, then along the lake shore. "We expect the wealthy will listen to the sermons just the same as the poorer people," said the Rev. W. W. Ketchum, who preached to a crowd at North Clark and West Division streets. CONVICT MAY HARVEST CROP. Kansas Governor Paroles Man Whose Family Needs Him. Topeka, Kan. -- Governor Hodges granted a parole of sixty days to W. F. Richards, a prisoner at the state penitentiary, so Richards might go to his home in Saline county and harvest his wheat crop. Richards entered prison last January under a sentence of from one to five years for selling mortgaged property. He was heavily in debt and, according to reports to the governor, his family has been dependent upon neighbors. Friends recently informed the governor the wheat which Richards planted last fall promised to yield an abundant crop. The governor decided the family needed Richards for the next sixty days more than the state of Kansas did. CUT OUT BREAKFAST TWENTY YEARS AGO Hopeless Invalid Then, Now Haskell Is Robust at 74, Norwich, Conn, -- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Courtney Haskell have just been celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their adoption of a "no break- fast" rule. Flaky rolls, fragrant coffee, crisp bacon and eggs and delicately browned griddlecakes may have tempted them to break the rule, but they declare they have never yielded. Twenty Years ago Mr. Haskell was fifty-four year old and an invalid, hopeless of regaining health, he says. After eight years of "doctoring" he met a certain Dr. Dewey of Meadville, Pa., who advised him to omit the early morning meal. Mrs Haskell had suffered from asthma for fifteen years. Both resolved to cut out breakfast. "Now, for twenty years," says Mr. Haskell, "we have followed this plan of natural, hygenic, scientific, divine living without the break of a single day, and whereas I was an old, worn- out man twenty years ago, today, at the age of seventy-four, I am in the enjoyment of permanent, perfect health doing better and more effective work than ever before." Mr. Haskell says he persuaded Wu Ting Fang to adopt the no breakfast rule. During the most severe winter weather Mr. Haskell goes about gen- really carrying his hat, baring his head to the wind and storms and seeming to enjoy it and grow rugged by it. Mr. Haskell was at one time a wealthy bookman. He published James G. Blaine's life when Blaine was running for the presidency and was said to have lost heavily when interest in Blaine slumped. BURGLAR LEAVES A NOTE. Writes That The Children Make Too Much Noise to Suit Him. Spokane, Wash. - A. L. White, president of the park board, was awakened by a servant calling that the house had been robbed. Investigation showed jewelry and clothing valued at $700 had been taken. The burglar left behind a note which read: "Your kids make too much noise and keep waking u[, and it is now 5 o'clock, so I cannot finish the job, Goodby! I see you did not buy a new overcoat." Some weeks ago the White home was robbed of an overcoat and it is believed the same thief was in the house a second time. [] committee has under consideration a bill to establish a federal censorship commission over moving pictures. The measure has strong support, and the chances are that it will be enacted into law at this session of congress. It has been indorsed by clergymen, educators and some moving picture exhibitors. Other exhibitors oppose it on the ground that film makers censor their product and that federal censorship would interfere with the business. Another objection urged against the bill is that its passage might serve as a precedent for legislation abridging the liberty of the press. Those who voice this objection argue that if the federal government under- takes to censor moving pictures it may extend the authority to printed matter. Advocated of federal censorship of moving pictures say that these exhibitions are hurtful or beneficial to the youthful mind according to their character. It is asserted that many crimes have been traced to children who had witnessed debasing scenes in moving picture houses. For this reason it is argued that competent inspection and effective censor- ship of films are needed. The two sides of the story were told in the house committee. "Many parts of moving picture exhibitions are perfectly proper," said the Rev. H. N. Pringle, assistant superintendent of the international reform bureau. "Other parts may be objection- able because they present at times pictures of murders, robberies, holdups, assaults, burglaries and nearly the whole catalogue of crimes. "Every few days you may see in the newspapers allusions by criminal court judges to the connection between juvenile crime and the demoralizing presentations just mentioned. This bill proposes the examination and censor- ship of picture films so that tainted and diseased amusement may not be sent out form about fifty film manufactureing firms and importing firms to nearly 20,000 moving picture theaters to injure millions of immature persons who daily see these productions." W. Stephen Bush of New York, representing a moving picture publication, made a defense of American made moving pictures. "Respect for the ordinary decencies of life characterizes the producers of moving pictures," he said. "They are anxious to please, not to offend. It is a fact that the American producers supply not less than 75 per cent of the world's market of moving pictures. "No matter where you go in Europe, you will find a strong percentage of each program is made up of pictures made in this country. Why? Because the American pictures with negligible exceptions are clean. "They are made by men whose eyes and ears heed public taste and sentiment and who do not want to cater to any morbid or depraved taste. Now, censorship has been responsible in the countries of Europe for a great de- crease in the number of pictures made, and absolutely no good is accomplished by the censorships such as exists in Russia, Germany and other countries." It was brought out that Ohio, Kansas, Pennsylvania and California exercise censorships over moving pictures. Boards of moving picture censorship also are in operation in many cities, among them New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Cleveland. Censorship laws are applied to the business in England, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Russia and Canada. HIS INCOME TAX 2 CENTS. Costs United States More Than Levy to Send Bill to Philadelphia. Philadelphia.--Among the first income tax bills to be sent out from the local office was one for 2 cents, addressed to a resident of this city. This is the sum total of his tax, computed on a net taxable income of $2, minus all exemptions and deductions allowed by the law. Computation of this return required the services of several clerks in this city and Washington. The envelope and the paper cost the government more than the amount of the bill. Week in Society Commander, of Tampa, Fla., are spending the summer at Asbury Park, N. J. Mrs. Robinson, of T Street, has gone to Asbury Park for the summer. Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshall arrived in the city this week to attend the closing of the Conservatory of Music. Mrs. Marshall has been in New York two months. Mr. Marshall has been very ill. Dr. Henry Little Goens, Jr., of Philadelphia, was in the city Sunday, the guest of his father, Mr. Henry Little Goens, Sr., of 744 Harvard St. Dr. Goens visited the Freedman's Hospital while here. All of the Medical graduated of Howard University took the examination for "internes" for Freedman's Hospital. Dr. Willard Lane, son of Dr. and Mrs. Lane of Eighth Street Northeast, was one of the three out of town graduates who took the "exam." Dr. J. E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., passed through the city en route for New York City Wednesday morning, June 3d. Mr. J. C. Dancy and Rev. Clemmons, of North Carolina, left the city for the east Wednesday morning. Miss Maud Young Carter, formerly a teacher of music at Howard University, left the city Wednesday morning for the East. Miss Clara A. Watson, a public school teacher of Windsor, N. C., is spending her vacation in this city with her cousins, Mrs. John C. Strong of 1634 Tenth Street Northwest, and Attorney Jabez Lee, of 310 Elm Street Northwest. Mrs. Andrew Lee of Burlington, N. J., was guest over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. White. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Williams have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lillian Alexandra Day, and Mr. Charles Phillip Ford Wednesday evening, June 10, from 8:30 to 10:30 o'clock, at 1006 South Ash Street, Greensburg, N. C. At home after June 17 at 1552 Third Street Northwest, this city. Mrs. Wilson, of New York City, the sister of Mrs. J. F. Bundy, is her guest at 402 O Street Northwest. Miss Rachel Bell has returned to her home from Providence Hospital, where she underwent a serious operation. She in improving slowly. The Juniors entertained the Senior High School pupils Wednesday night at the High School building. It was a brilliant affair. Miss Essie Hebbron, of 444 P Street Northwest, had as her weekend guest Miss Geneva Mason and Miss Gertrude Jackson, of Philadelphia, Pa. JUDGE TERRELL HONORED (Continued from page 1.) meeting of the best men and women of out race. And from this platform it gives me the keenest pleasure to thank the President of the United States and his courageous Attorney General as well as the Senate of the Nation for the tribute they have paid the Negro by giving him representation on the bench at the federal Capital, so that the Nations of the world may learn through their diplomatic representatives who are accredited to our government that in some parts of our country the Negro is still rec- Graceful and pleasing. Mrs. A. W. Scott, who always has a charming and pleasing look, was an attractive participant. Dr. Ralph Stewart was never seen so quiet. Mrs. Ed. Williston, like her great husband, could only look on and enjoy others dancing the tango. Dr. Sumner Wormley, the prince of good fellews, never allowed and opportunity to pass. The Judge and his side partner the Major, never stayed off the floor. Every dance, walk and look belonged to them. Dan. Freeman has not lost any of his old time vigor. Like Dr. WIlliston, is liable to come back again. Will Clifford was in evidence, but the supper was missing. Cold cream was the menu of the evening. Mrs. W. H. Singleton and her charming little sister, Miss green, were quite in evidence. Miss Maria James looked like an Egyptian Princess. She is not only a pleasing dancer, but a good entertainer. Lord Dunlap Walters was the personification of dignity. James A. Cobb was never idle. Mr. Cobb is always agreeable company. Roscoe C. Bruce never missed a dance. He never means to lose his identity with nature Mrs. R. C. Bruce was a silent guest, but an admiring one. The Major and the Judge were the two dromios. Attorney Scott left his full dress at home and came near being outlawed. Attorney Jones left before he was outlawed. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Carter were among the lookers on. Mrs. West, wife of Dr. West, was in her childhood days. Prof. Williams is able to handle mathematics, but not tango dances. Mrs. Jessie Powell was one among the most charming guests present, Her graceful carriage was the center of attraction. Some one remarked there are Wyatt Archer and Dick Henderson. Alas! The only two left. Dr. Childs was himself again. He has returned to boyhood days. Well, Dr. Cabiniss was a jolly good fellow. Dr. was able to do the tango. Drs. Wheatland and West looked patiently on. Prof. and Mrs. Newman were an enjoyable couple. Prof. Newman is some tango dancer. Prof. Walker is a dignified and graceful dancer. Lieut. Thomas H. Clark is the personification of dignity and grace Prof. John C. Dancy was not in a dancing humor. Not even the Judge could invigorate him. Will Houston took the dances in. Mrs. Houston doesn't dance. Billie Wilkinson and other crack dancers were not seen upon the floor. Dr. W. L. Board was there. Dr. wore that same smile that will not lose its vigor. Mr. Maurice Clifford knows the tango all right. Everybody was plentifully punched and slightly caked and creamed. The souvenir dancing card was unique. Miss Florence Brooks was very tastily dressed and her dancing was faultless. Miss Ida Jenkins was beautifully gowned. Mrs. Jeannette E. Baltimore was becomingly gowned. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson looked like Lord Chamberlain. His full dress gave him the appearance of a British statesman. Mr. Moria Saunders was with a queen of beauty, who was an adept in tango dancing. Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis were quite in evidence. Mrs. Curtis looked like Queen Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Cook were quietly enjoying the dances. Col. Charles R. Douglas was an attractive participant. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lucas took little part in the tango. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. M. Murray do not dance. Mr. Walter J. Singleton was a surprise. He didn't dance the tango. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Watson don't dance. Their church affiliations preclude them. Mrs. John W. Francis, Jr., and Mrs. Marshall has been in New York two months. Mr. Marshall has been very ill. Dr. Henry Little Goens, Jr., of Philadelphia, was in the city Sunday, the guest of his father, Mr. Henry Little Goens, Sr., of 744 Harvard St. Dr. Goens visited the Freedman's Hospital while here. All of the Medical graduates of Howard University took the examination for "internes" for Freedman's Hospital. Dr. Willard Lane, son of Dr. and Mrs. Lane, of Eighth Street Northeast, was one of the three out of town graduates who took the "exam." Dr. J. E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., passed through the city en route for New York City Wednesday morning, June 3d. Mr. J. C. Dancy and Rev. Clemmons, of North Carolina, left the city for the east Wednesday morning. Miss Maud Young Carter, formerly a teacher of music at Howard University, left the city Wednesday morning for the East. Miss Clara A. Watson, a public school teacher of Windsor, N. C., is spending her vacation in this city with her cousins, Mrs. John C. Strong of 1634 Tenth Street Northwest, and Attorney Jabez Lee, of 310 Elm Street Northwest. Mrs. Andrew Lee of Burlington, N. J., was guest over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. White. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Williams have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lillian Alexandra Day, and Mr. Charles Philip Ford Wednesday evening, June 10, from 8:30 to 10:30 o'clock, at 1006 South Ash Street, Greensburg, N.C. At home after June 17 at 1552 Third Street Northwest, this city. Mrs. Wilson, of New York City, the sister of Mrs. J.F. Bundy, is her guest at 402 O Street Northwest. Miss Rachel Bell has returned to her home from Providence Hospital, where she underwent a serious operation. She is improving slowly. The Juniors entertained the Senior High School pupils Wednesday night at the High School building. It was a brilliant affair. Miss Essie Hebbron, of 444 P Street Northwest, had as her weekend guest Miss Geneva Mason and Miss Gertrude Jackson, of Philadelphia, Pa. JUDGE TERRELL HONORED (Continued from page 1.) meeting of the best men and women of our race. And from this platform it gives me the keenest pleasure to thank the President of the United States and his courageous Attorney General as well as the Senate of the Nation for the tribute they have paid the Negro by giving him representation on the bench at the federal Capital so that the Nations of the world may learn through their diplomatic representatives who are accredited to our government that in some parts of our country the Negro is still recognized as a man and a citizen. And I cannot be too fulsome in praise of the members of the bar, the business men and the press of Washington for their active, persistent and insistent demand for my retention on the bench. Never did any man have more loyal and earnest support than that which came to me from these sources. Such a victory as we have won should be an inspiration to every colored man in our land. Therefore, I urge you to be patient and not to get discouraged and not to give up the fight for better things and higher honors, even though some of us must fail in the struggle. That sweetest of singers, Paul Laurence Dunbar has said in verse: "The man who is strong to fight his fight, And whose will no front can daunt, If truth be truth and right be right, Is the man that the ages want. Tho' he fail and die in grim defeat, Yet he has not fled the strife, And the house of earth will seem more sweet, For the perfume of his life." AFTERMATH OF TERRELL'S RECEPTION Mrs. Terrell was a lady of fashion and enjoyed the dances. She danced all the latest dances. Miss Lola Howard was pleasing and tastily dressed. Mrs. B.K. Bruce quietly looked down from the balcony. She has not lost any of her dignity and refinement. Mrs. Daniel H. Freeman would not venture the new dances. She wore a smile that would not come off. Miss Hattie Shadd had a retiring appearance, but a pleasing look, which is always characteristic of her facial charms. Miss A.B. Chase is a good dancer. (?) (?) Attorney Scott left his full dress at home and came near being outlawed. Attorney Jones left before he was outlawed. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Carter were among the lookers on. Mrs. West, wife of Dr. West, was in her childhood days. Prof. Williams is able to handle mathematics, but not tango dances. Mrs. Jessie Powell ws one among the most charming guests present. Her graceful carriage was the center of attraction. Some one remarked there are Wyatt Archer and Dick Henderson. Alas! The only two left. Dr. Childs was himself again. He has returned to boyhood days. Well, Dr. Cabiniss was a jolly good fellow. Dr.was able to do the tango. Drs. Wheatland and West looked patiently on. Prof. and Mrs. Newman were an enjoyable couple. Prof. Newman is some tango dancer. Prof. Walker is a dignified and graceful dancer. Lieut. Thomas H. Clark is the personification of dignity and grace. Prof. John C. Nalle was present, but said little. Mr. John C. Dancy was not in a dancing humor. Not even the Judge could invigorate him. Will Houston took the dances in. Mrs. Houston doesn't dance. Billie Wilkinson and other crack dancers were not seen upon the floor. Dr.W.L. Board was there. Dr. wore that same smile that will not lose its vigor. Mr. Maurice Clifford knows the tango all right. Everybody was plentifully punched and slightly caked and creamed. The souvenir dancing card was unique. Miss Florence Brooks was very tastily dressed and her dancing was faultless. Miss Ida Jenkins was beautifully gowned. Mrs. Jeannette E.Baltimore was becomingly gowned. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson looked like Lord Chamberlain. His full dress gave him the appearance of a British statesman. Mr. Moria Saunders was with a queen of beauty, who was an adept in tango dancing. Dr. and Mrs. A.M. Curtis were quite in evidence. Mrs. Curtis looked like Queen Elizabeth. Mr.and Mrs. Geo. W. Cook were quietly enjoying the dances. Col. Charles R. Douglas was an attractive participant. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lucas took little part in the tango. Mr. and Mrs. F.H.M. Murray do not dance. Mr. Walter J. Singleton was a surprise. He did't dance tango. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Watson don't dance. Their church affiliations preclude them. Mrs. John W. Francis, Jr., and Mrs. Edith Mintor, her sister, were among the fascinating guests. Mrs. Mintor has not lost any of her beauty, refinement and sweetness. Mrs. Cabiniss ws most beautifully gowned. Mrs. Childs never danced. She amused herself by admiring her better half. Miss Childs, the daughter of Dr. Childs, could not dance the tango with her father. The dances were refined and admiring. FALLS CHURCH NOTES The May Cantata given Friday evening at the Second Baptist Church proved to be a great success. The children were well trained under the direction of Mrs. Lena Dixon, Mrs. J. Everett Thomas and Miss Henderson. The principal features witnessed by the large congregation of parents and friends were the crowning of the May Queen, the winding of the May Pole and the calisthenic drill. the May Queen, Fairy Queen and Gypsy Queen parts were well taken by Misses Louise Robinson, Ethel Powell and Helen Stewart. A reception will be given those who participated in the cantata Thursday evening at six o'clock. Rev. and Mrs. G.W. Powell had as their pleasant guest Saturday and Sunday Mrs.Lucius Foley, Mrs. Philip Campbell and Master Louis Campbell, of Washington, D.C. Mrs. John Rumbles, who was taken ill suddenly last week is much better, but still confined to her bed. Mr. W.Floyd Evans and Miss Izetta Walkeer, spent Decoration Day at Manassas, Va. Mr. Evans has recently returned from a trip to Farmville, Va., where he visited relatives and friends. Mrs. Susie Allen and her son William spent Sunday at Herndon, Va. Mr. Charles Henderson left recent- ational Religious T School, Durham N. training of young men and women in successful operation. aining. This department is intended .C.A and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. and for Home and Foreign Mis- 4. Literary Department 5. Department of Music. 6. Department of Literary Trai 7. Department of Industries. 8. Extension Home Classes. There are special scholarships for in the departments of Theology and The next summer school and C For further information and cata House & Her 7th and Eye Sats., N WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT YOUR Household Furniture of all kinds and description, House and Hermann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that: will satisfy you. 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Ceruti, 105 New Box19, Station J, New York City Sample of comb may be secured at The Bee office, where will be received and comb promptly delivered. Republican Party of West Virginia laced itself squarely on record as op- osed to the disfranchisement of the Negro, and favoring the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments of the United States Constitu- tion, and the reduction of the South's representation in Congress, at the State Republican Convention, held May 20th, in this city, to ratify the recommendations of the Republican National Committee. The convention was held in the state attorney nd was one of the largest conventions of any party to ever meet in this state. Delegates and members of the party were here from every section of the State, and the keenest interest was manifested in the proceedings as the future of the Republican Party was to be largely determined by the action of this convention. Much apprehension existed among the leaders as to the attitude of the "I feel it my duty to say To suffering Humanity" something in regard to Dr. Milles' Anti-Pain Pills. I consider them a godsend, and I myself fail to find words to express my gratitude for such a remedy. Many times when it seemed the pain was too great to go on the platform, I found them a sweet relief. I have used Dr. Milles' Anti-Pain Pills for two years and will always tell of their benefit to others" Rev. R. M. Bentley, Lecturer, Shelbyville, Ind. Persons who are easily excited and subject to nervous spells or headache after attending church, the theatre or some social gathering, will find Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills a true friend in time of need. carry one or two tablets in your purse or pocket and take them as needed. At all druggists-if the first box fails to benefit, your money is returned. ------------------------- We learn with trepidation, but not with [?] [??prise], that the National Association of Clothing [De]signers, at its convention in Baltimore last wee[k,] issued some rather sweeping decrees. When women's fashions are changing so fast that there is a new style almost as soon as the package last ordered is delivered from the store, one can never tell when the contagion will spread to the sex that is commonly supposed to frown on such things. Men's fashions, it is true, change slowly, but they do change. What a startling sartorial contrast there is between the men of Washington's time, with their colored velvet coats, satin waistcoats, and fluffy ruffles, and those of the late Georgian period in England and America, when the long trousers and the swallowtail had come in vogue, and the tall "beaver" had succeeded the cocked hat! And what a further transformation to the costumes of the s[e]venties, when severe plainness set in, to be followed by the reaction to the smarter effects visible today, which are slowly sapping the reputation of the less beautiful sex for being proof against the temptation to deck themselves in glad habiliments! Who would have thought a few years back that overcoats would be worn whose circumference at the bottom would bear about the same proportion to the opening at the neck that the base of the Pyramid of Cheops bears to its pinnacle? When the wonder of such things overcomes us we may well be pardoned for gasping at the possibility, of which hints have not been wanting, that the ruffled trouser bottom will succeed the prevalent "turn-up," and that the soft evening shirt is but the forerunner of other innovations that will keep us running to the tailor and the haberdasher until we are out of breath. ------------------------- "SABRE RULE" IN GERMANY. ------------------------- The honor of the German military establishment has been upheld in connection with the vexing Zabern incident. The court-martial has sustained the conduct of the young officer who stuck a sabre into a lame shoemaker at the Alsatian town because he considered that the offender was ridiculing the military. The officer was sentenced, at the first hearing, to go to prison. That sentence has now been set aside, and in addition the officers in command at Zabern have been justified in using military power to overawe the Zabern populace and impress them generally with the superiority of the military institution. In effect, these determinations will be construed as holding that the whim of a military authority is superior to the civil law of the empire. It is a strange doctrine to be promulgated and sustained in so modern and civilized a country as the Germany of today. Yet it is the perhaps inevitable result of giving militarism that tremendous importance that it has assumed in Germany. Military power and civil authority do not subsist easily side by side. The military arm naturally, having weapons in its hands, is [??????ve]. We have seen how willingly military [au????] [?] [ov]erride civil, in the recent manifestations [?] That West Virginia incident aroused FAMINE IN JAPAN. ------------------------- A short news cable from Tokyo announcing that 9,000,000 of Japanese are starving in the northeastern district of Japan because of crop failures in parts of this country don't mean starvation there. They don't mean hunger. There is enough in the other parts of the country to feed all, and in one way and another they are fed. In Japan the earnings of the people are so meager and the proportion of those earnings that is confiscated by government taxation is so large that when there are no crop failures and when there are no unemployed, millions of that country's wage-earning producers, laboring long hours and laboring hard, as the Japanese does labor, have so little with which to be fed day by day, week by week and month by month, that what would seem to them feasting on bounty would be for the poorest of our American wage-earners literal starvation. ------------------------- WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE? ------------------------- It must be a terrible shock to Uncle Sam to find anybody declining to accept at his hands coin stamped with his imprint, or the equivalent. We suppose he will have a hard time realizing that he is not in topsy-turvy land when he contemplates Mrs. Redfield Proctor's final refusal to take $7,500 voted her by the Senate in accordance with the custom of allowing the widow of a member an amount equal to one year's salary for her husband. True, Senator Proctor during his lifetime laid by something for a rainy day and his widow makes no secret of the fact that she will be a heavy contributor to the income tax. She simply says she does not need the money and will not have it, so there you are. Uncle Sam can steel himself and get over the sensational surprise as best he may. Freaks of the so-called conscience fund, made up of money returned to the Government by persons who are not entitled to it, are so familiar that they create only mild interest in Washington. But here is a new kind of conscience fund started by the widow of the Vermont Senator, and we shall hope to see it grow. ------------------------- WHAT ARE MEN COMING TO? -off appoint- - colored man, he certainly would hope for and welcome the reappointment of Judge Terrell. Has Long Record Before going on the Municipal Court bench, Judge Terrell was a justice of the peace, and has seen long service. Every one of the five present members of the court has been re-appointed to the municipal bench at least once. When the court was created five men wo were justices of the peace went into the new court. At the time of creation there were six justices of the peace, and the number had ranged from six to fifteen. the old justice of the peace order was a fee system, and some justices made as high at $12,000 or $15,000 a year. The system had many drawbacks in scattered records, and various systems of[?] and record keeping. It was hard to keep track of judgments. Under the law then it was necessary to sue in the justice of the pace district in which the defendant resided. This crowded the docket on the man in the business district and left the others comparatively hungry. Because the central district was crowded causes were delayed and there were many inconveniences. Under the present system the court, though it has only five justices, keeps up with the calendar. Each day the cases are split into fifths, and are heard. It is possible to get a case though in a little over a week, and unless delays are asked, the usual time is under two weeks. Keep Work Moving. Cases are interchangeable one are shifted about to keek the work moving. Judge Aukam, the youngest man on the court, and one who is largely responsible for its existence, fills in by authority of the Supreme Court on the bench of the Juvenile and Police Courts. When a judge or judges are absent, the work is split into fourths, thirds, or halves as the case may be. Unless appointments are made before Judge Strider's time expires within a week, the entire burden will fall on Judge Aukam. The court was created February 17, 1903. Congressman Campbell of Kansas, who has befriended the District and fought for local measures since, greatly aided the passage of the bill creating the court in Congress. Chapin Brown, as a member of the legislative committee of the Chamber of Commerce, worked tirelessly for it. At that time the court idea was not overly popular with members of the bar. Sentiment has changed decidedly since and a move to abolish the court would meet healthy opposition. Futhered Legislation. Judge Aukam became imbued with the Municipal court idea soon after he was made a justice of the peace in 1907, and he also was one of the men most prominent in furthering the legislation. The municipal case has exclusive jurisdiction in civil cases of suits where the sum is $100 or less. It has a concurrent jurisdiction with the higher districts courts on sums from $100 up to $500, and a litigant has the option of taking his case to either court. He usually chooses the Municipal Court because the costs are low, but a little over a dollar, as compared with an initial fee of $15 in the higher court. Besides in the higher court it is declared that cases frequently run over on the crowded calendar. It is this condition that may lead supporters of the court to launch a movement to increase the scope of the Municipal Court giving it concurrent jurisdiction up to $1,000, as well as a jury trial system. ------- Idle Gossip Causes Death. AURORA, Ill., Jan. 11. - Shamed by gossip which declared her faithless to her husband, and denying the truth of the tales, Mrs. Joseph Nemeth left the house in her nightclothes, carried her month-old baby to the icy waters of the Fox river, and is believed to have jumped in. 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Sunday), $3.50 \ 6 Mo., $1.75 \ 3 Mo. 90c Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second class mail matter. Washington, D. C., Sunday, January 11, 1914. a storm of protest that has reasonably insured against early repetition. But suppose that the tribunal of last resort had sweepingly sustained the proceedings of the West Virginia drumhead courts-martial? Then we should have had a mild suggestion of what has been done in Germany. It is difficult to believe that twentieth century civilization will for long consent to such subversion of civil rights of a great people. THE MUNICIPAL COURT. Washington people have too little understanding of the institution, now almost five years old, of the Municipal Court. Established just before Mr. Roosevelt left the Presidency, it was substituted for the old system of justices of the peace, and has come to be recognized widely as one of the model "people's courts" of the country. Under the old justice court system a vast business was conducted on the fee plan, and, as has been true in too many other cities, the justices held highly profitable places. Thus the people least able to afford it were made to contribute toward upholstering the political soft places that were highly prized as political rewards. The Municipal Court took over, in general, the jurisdiction of the old justice courts, with exclusive authority in actions involving up to $500. Thus practically all landlord and tenant cases and the vast proportion of actions on debt come to this court. The importance of a good system is excellently illustrated in the case of the Municipal Court. The old system was bad. Yet when the new one was created the same men who had been justices were appointed to the bench of the Municipal Court, and under them the most excellent conditions have been attained. These men--there are now five of them-- have won the confidence of bar, litigants, and the higher courts. Their court sustains itself, pays salaries of judges and minor officials, even the rent of the quarters occupied, and then turns back something like $20,000 a year to the revenues of the District. This, of course, is just so much mo court ought to produce. There is no proper reason why a judicial establishment should earn profits to the public treasury. There is every reason, on the other hand, why a court such as this one should be conducted just as economically as possible--and this one is so conducted--and its fees adjusted to the purpose of giving litigants the service they want at the lowest expense. The scale of fees of the Municipal Court might well be reduced enough to wipe out the revenue surplus arising from its activities. When the court was created in its present form the scale of fees was necessarily more or less experimental. It was desirable to place the charges high enough. Experience has proved that they were placed higher than they needed to be. In the light of that experience they ought to be reduced. The five judges of this court, Messrs. Strider, Bundy, Callan, Aukam, and Terrell, have performed, in the first five years of its existence, a service that is not as well appreciated by the community as it should be. They might without much difficulty have made the new system a doubtful success. Instead they have given their best efforts and largest energies to making it a complete and really notable success, and they have done this for salaries so small that sordid motives could not possibly be involved. At a time when the terms off four members of this bench are expiring and when the whole community seems united in the wish, without regard to politics or faction, that they should be reappointed, the salaries of these places should be increased. To add $1000 to the annual salary of the judges, and then to reduce the scale of fees so that there would be no "profits" in the establishment, would make the Municipal Court one deserving to be studied and copied by almost any American city. THE NEW HAVEN SETTLEMENT. The New Haven railway follows close in the footsteps of the great Morgan banking house, in recognizing the spirit and purposes of the Administration in dealing with great aggregations of property. It is not necessary now to discuss the question of whether New England will be better served by a dissevered transportation system. The New Haven, the Boston and Maine, and the Boston and Albany, it is stated, are to be sundered. The steamship lines and the trolleys are to be pruned away from the parent system that Mr. Mellen put together at cost of so much pains, effort--and money. Whether a single gigantic transport system might have been best for New England or not, New England, the country, and the National Administration have agreed that the system Mr. Mellen organized, at the price which it represented, was not the best thing possible. That is about all that is to be said now. Consolidation and centralization have not much to urge in their favor unless they can improve credit, get cheaper capital, give better service, and do the public's business with more safety and efficiency. They apparently could not, in the fashion in which they were applied in New England. Therefore, New England is going back to earlier models, and to try out once more the simpler mechanism by which it is hoped that closer and more intensive attention to details on management may be secured. That the Federal Government and the complexity of New Haven interests have been able to agree on an adjustment without litigation is one of the most gratifying aspects of the whole situation. It shows that men are coming to realize the all-round obligation to the public as a whole. Litigation and uncertainty inevitably mean dissipation, losses, and bad results. e delvers in the Biblical records have advanced the proposition before. Webb, 3519 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Will submit terms to agents. Combination of both books and pictures for $2.00, postage prepaid. Send money order, express order, or registered letter to Elder M. Webb, 3519 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Will submit terms to agents. ns here more carefully than the ual visitor would. Next to Washington, perhaps, St. Louis has been ned most for its colored society, d its almost unexampled hospital Its large number of colored hool teachers, drawn from every ction of the country, and representing the best institutions of high- and technical education, gives to hat city an air of culture. Secure in heir professions of culture, and conscious of much "higher" education, the colored people of St. Louis had for years neglected that basic foundation for permanent and substantial progress--"business." There is a re- val on here now, or to be more act an awakening to the unexcelled opportunities offered the race for the development of the business side of e. While not in the least neglect- g either culture of the so-called igher" education, the colored people of this city, inspired by the achievements of colored business men in other cities, and encouraged by the local Negro Business League, are anching out rapidly, and successful- into various lines of business activities. St Louis is a wonderful ld for development of Negro business enterprise--it is almost a virgin ld. One of the most complete, and st stocked gents furnishing stores, nducted by colored men in the untry, is that of Clark and Smith this city. The largest, by far, and ost modernly equipped steam laundry in the country, conducted by colored men is to be found in this city, employing some forty hands. The colored drug stores, print shops, grocery stores, newspapers and cafes, owned and controlled by colored men in this city are equal of the best. St. Louis' more than 40,000 colored population has awakened to the fact that patronage given to Colored business and professional men will bring handsome returns in the shape of increased opportunities for young colored men and women to become clerks, bookkeepers, stenographers, etc., in the business houses and offices conducted by colored men. St. Louis' colored (public) schools are the best in the country--best buildings, best equipped, best managed, and they possess a corps of the best prepared principals and teachers. No city compares with St. Louis for the number of its magnificent colored churches, and no city's colored pulpiteers surpass in preparedness, eloquence or race devotion the colored ministers of this city. Here is a galaxy of fully prepared divines. I was, of course, most particularly interested in learning the business progress being made here, among colored men--their material progress rather than their religious progress, and consequently had little time to go into the achievements of the fifty-seven colored churches here. I have found, however, that where a city's religious interests and educational needs are conserved by excellent schools and many ample churches a safer foundation exists upon which to rear a business superstructure. 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There is a fake society in existence. ------------------------------------------------------- PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac) I attended the testimonial and reception to Judge Terrell last week. I has a most delightful time. Well, you talk about old men returning to boyhood, they were in the majority. The citizens, so-called, took charge of the affair and snowed the lawyers and other modern and anxious orators out of a job. They were some angry because the program had a stipulated number of orators whose speeches had been censured by the censor. My friend Dancy labored under a great strain and many things he said might have been left unsaid. Lord Fauntelroy made one of his fine tooth-comb speeches that would have taken judges to understand. The Lord is some polished orator as well as continuous dancer. ----- Speaking about the lawyers at the Terrell banquet, I understand that the lawyers intend to give a banquet of their own and arrange a program to suit themselves. There is some objections and a division of opinion among them. Some argue that the judge has been sufficiently banqueted, and too much eating may have a bad effect on his constitution. if you overload a baby stomach it will give it the "colic". This time of year, to give the judge the colic would have a disastrous effect. ----- I sent in my $1.50, but O! that supper that I had anticipated was weighed in the balance and was found wanting; $1.50 subscribed. Certainly there will be a draw back because we had one cake of cream, two or three cakes and all the punch you could drink with lemonade thrown in. It is as great wonder, how the feels stood the effects of that lemonade and ice cream. ---- I dropped in Hotel West last Sunday evening, and right opposite where I saw Judge Terrell, R. Wordy Thompson, traveling Finley, and everlasting talker Phil Waters, of West Virginia. I enjoyed the observation. You know Phil is some talker. R. wordy was never happier in his life. He has been promoted I understand. Well, he said so himself. He was a long time getting there. Phil Waters drops in town occasionally. I can not understand how Phil is able to endure so long. ----------- By the way, I was informed that Drs. Childs and Cabannis are some kind of tango dancers. They won the laurels last week at the Terrell reception. Drs. Vjilds and Cabannis will take life as it should be taken. Life is what you make it, after all. ----------- The lawyers in the Lewis building have been notified to give up their abode. I understand that an option has been placed on a building in the vicinity of the courts, and if conditions mature they will be to themselves and possess a building of their own. I had decided to take a vacation, but I have changed my mind for the present. I am compelled to remain on the job a little longer, because I have something of importance. [?]the bill will be favorably i reported was indicated by the comment of committee members today. JUDGE TERRELL IS TO BE REAPPOINTED [*Washington Times Jan 20 1914*] President and McReynolds Have Long Conference Over Jobs in the District. Following a long conference at the White House today by President Wilson and Attorney General McReynolds over District appointments: it was learned that the President and Mr. McReynolds have determined upon the reappointment of Judge Robert H. Terrell, colored, as a member of the municipal bench. It is asserted that Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, who generally has opposed the nomination of colored persons to Federal office, has voiced no objections to Judge Terrell's reappointment. The President desires, it is said, to show by his appointment that he has no prejudices against colored appointments for certain positions, and that he realized that Judge Terrell has made a good record while in office. Bricklayers' President Hurt by Automobile William T. Levy, president of the bricklayers union, was struck by an automobile in Pension Office Square this morning and injured seriously. The automobile was a delivery car, but the name of the driver has not been learned by the police. Levy is suffering from concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull. He is sixty years old and lives at 310 Indiana avenue northwest. IN CONGRESS TODAY. SENATE. Met at noon. Hearing before Commerce Committee on bill to consolidate Life-Savings Service and Revenue Cutter Service. Strong demands on Senate for investigation of Calumet strike and Colorado strike. Senate goes to House at 12:30 to hear President read trust message. Judiciary Committee meets on work-men's compensation bill. HOUSE. Met at noon. President read his trust message before a joint session of Senate and House. Debate on postoffice appropriation bill resumed. District Committee nearing marked by fist fight. and honorably yielding to it and seeking to conform their actions to it. The great business men who organized and financed monopoly and those who administered it in actual everyday transactions have year after year, until now, either denied its existence or justified it as necessary for the effective maintenance and development of the vast business processes of the country in the modern circumstances of trade and manufacture and finance; but all the while opinion has made head against them. The average business man is convinced that the ways of liberty are also the ways of peace and the ways of success as well; and at last the masters of business on the great scale have begun to yield their preference and purpose, perhaps their judgment also, in honorable surrender. Square Business With the Law. What we are purposing to do, therefore, is happily, not to hamper or interfere with business as enlightened business men prefer to do it, or in any senses to put it under the ban. The antagonism between business and government is over. We are now about to give expression to the best business judgment of America, to what we know to be the business conscience and honor of the land. The Government and business men are ready to meet each other half way in a common effort to square business methods with both public opinion and the law. The best informed men of the business world condemn the methods and processes and consequences of monopoly as we condemn them; and the instinctive judgment of the vast majority of business men everywhere goes with them. We shall now be their spokesmen. That is the strength of our position and the sure prophecy of what will ensue when our reasonable work is done. When, serious contest ends, when men unite in opinion and purpose, those who are to change their ways of business joining with those who ask for the change, it is possible to effect it in the way in which prudent and thoughtful and patriotic men would wish to see it brought about, with as few, as slight, as easy and simple business readjustments as possible in the circumstances, nothing essential disturbed nothing essential disturbed, nothing torn up by the roots, no parts rent asunder which can be left in wholesome combination. Fortunately, no measures of sweeping or novel change are necessary. It will be understood that our object is not to unsettle business or anywhere seriously to We must give effect in this manner. It is not recent or hasty opinion. It springs out of the experience of a whole generation. It has clarified itself by long contest, and those who for a long time battled with it and sought to change it are now frankly and honorably yielding to it and seeking to conform their actions to it. The great business men who organized and financed monopoly and those who administered it in actual everyday transactions have year after here, until now, either denied its existence or justified it as necessary o'er the effective maintenance and development of the vast business process of the country in the modern circumstances of trade and manufacture and finance; but all the while opinion has made head against them. The average business man is convinced that the ways of liberty are also the ways of peace and the ways of success as well; and at last the masters of business on the great scale have begun to yield their preference and purpose, perhaps their judgment also, in honorable surrender. Square Business with the Law. What we are proposing to do, therefore, is, happily, not to hamper or interfere with business as enlightened business men prefer to do it, or in any sense to put it under the ban. The antagonism between business and government is over. We are now about to give expression to the best business judgment of America, to what we know to be the business conscience and honor of the land. The government and business men are ready to meet each other half way in a common effort to square business methods with both public opinion and the law. The best informed men of the business world condemn the methods and processes and consequences of mo[nopoly] Perfect Teeth and Dr. White are synonymous terms in Washington My method of painless dentistry is unique because it is ABSOLUTELY PAINLESS. My charges are unique because my great practice allows me to quote THE LOWEST PRICES. My terms of payment are unique because they allow you to have the work done when needed and you can PAY WHEN YOU CAN. 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My Brothers: This is not only an unusual event, but it is also a celebrated gathering of men of color. We are met to applaud a victory that keeps open the door of hope and opportunity to people who have made their way in the world against tremendous odds and over obstacles that would have crushed to earth a less hardy and a less ambitious race. Again, this meeting is unique, because it is composed of men who represent what is best in Negro scholarship in this country--each one capable of defending his brief along the line of his endeavor. JUDGE R. H. TERRELL Banquetted by His College Chums. Among us tonight are those who began and finished their college life in that grand old institution situated on the banks of the Charles, famed for the scholarly attainments of her alumni--a university whose traditions are revered by her sons as a sacred heritage in which all of them may share and share alike. There are others here who were trained first elsewhere, but whose desire for the highest culture and deepest learning was not to be satisfied until they had joined and become part of that colony of scholars who gather within the classic walls of America's fore-more university, where merit and not race or color is the test of manhood. For, from the day that Crispus Attucks, the black patriot, gave the full measure of his devotion to his country and fell a martyr in State Street, Harvard College, our alma mater, abolished all distinctions founded on race or any previous condition for which a man himself is not responsible. The poet Dryden was a graduate of Cambridge University and later in life was honored by a degree from Oxford, of which university he became passionately fond. In an outburst of enthusiasm and love for Oxford, he wrote these words: "Oxford, a dearer name to me shall be than my own mother university; Thebes did my green, unknowing youth engage, I choose Athens in my riper age." the hard knocks we had to endure to win the victory that gives each one of us the right to a place in [this?] [se-?] lect circle of University men. To have had Plato and Emerson, Homer and Shakespeare as friends the charm of whose words is still with us, though the wisdom of these may long ago have been forgotten, is a blessing that comes only to the few. For us, such a privilege has its own peculiar value. My brothers, I cannot thank you too much for this evidence of your kindly feeling and this tribute to my humble efforts to serve my community and my race as well. I am glad that I am able to stand in the path of attack, when the assault upon my people was made, and finally to come out of the contest bringing with me a victory that not only redounds to the honor and glory of the colored American, but which should also be regarded as a sigh of hope and encouragement to every colored boy in our land. If my work as a judge or as a teacher has been done well, the foundation for it was laid in the halls and in the class rooms of Harvard, from whose doors no man is ever driven because of his race, and where the struggle for the prize is based on brain in the lecture hall and on brawn and skill on the campus. Fair Harvard "Thou taught by Fate to know Jehovah's plan, That man's devices can't unmake a man, An' whose free latch-string never was drawed in Against the poorest child of Adam's kin." COLLEGE MEN'S BANQUET. Distinguished Men Have a Smoker in Honor of Judge Terrell. A group of Harvard men, of the Middle Atlantic States, gathered in the parlors for the Philip F. Brooks catering establishment, Fourteenth and S Streets Northwest, on Friday night, May 22, to honor Judge Hobert H. Terrell, who was recently confirmed as one of the judges of the Municipal Court. In lieu of the customary banquet, a veritable "Harvard smoker" was given in honor of the judge. A company of men, representing classes as remote as 1871 and as recent as 1913, vied with one another in their congratulations to Judge Terrell and their praises of Harvard University. Among those who gave toasts were H. L. Bailey, D. A. Brown, R. C. Bruce, C. L. Davis, H. G. Douglass, T. M. Gregory, M. A. Hawkins, G. D. Houston, W. J. Howard, Jr., A. L. Locke, C. J. Murphy, J. H. N. Waring, T. C. Williams, W. Winsey, G. G. Woodson. Each toast was followed by "Fair Harvard" and other college songs traditionally Harvard. JUDGE R. H. TERRELL Banquetted by His College Chums. Among us tonight are those who began and finished their college life in that grand old institution situated on the banks of the Charles, famed for the scholarly attainments of her alumni--a university whose traditions are revered by her sons as a sacred heritage in which all of them may share and share alike. There are others here who were trained first elsewhere, but whose desire for the highest culture and deepest learning was not to be satisfied until they had joined and become a part of that colony of scholars who gather within the classic walls of America's foremore university, where merit and not race or color is the test of manhood. For, from the day that Crispus Attucks, the black patriot, gave the full measure of his devotion to his country and fell a martyr in State Street, Harvard College, our alma mater, abolished all distinctions founded on race or any previous condition for which a man himself is not responsible. The poet Dryden was a graduate of Cambridge University and later in life was honored by a degree from Oxford, of which university he became passionately fond. In an outburst of enthusiasm and love for Oxford, he wrote these words: "Oxford, a dearer name to me shall be than my own mother university; Thebes did my green, unknowing youth engage, I choose Athens in my riper age." And so some of our brothers here may sing with Dryden. Burning with an ambition for what is best in American scholastic training, they found their way to the institution over whose gateway is emblazoned the word "Veritas." And there they so maintained themselves, that we are proud to have them among us as our brothers. Tonight we are all of one class one clan--children of the same benign mother, ready to perform any duty that Harvard demands of her sons in return for all of those benefits of culture we enjoyed while we were within her sacred precincts. We are not boastful in speech nor are we unduly proud in spirit as to Harvard and the accomplishment of her graduates. They are their own best eulogy. It may be said, however, that the colored graduates of Harvard are deserving of all praise for the records they have made there. They had no rich inheritance from a distant part, either in brains or in money, to aid them in their struggle for an education. All of the grand possibilities of the future had to find their generating force in these men, the descendants of a people who had just emerged from a cruel and degrading slavery. It delights us now to recall those days of charming association and delightful memory which we spent under the tender care of our foster mother, in spite of all the hard knocks we had to endure to win victory that give each one of us the right to a place in this select circle of University men. To have Plato and Emerson, Homer and Shakespeare as friends the charm of whose words is still with us, though the wisdom of these may long ago have been forgotten, is a blessing that comes only to a few. For us, such a privilege has its own peculiar value. My brothers, I cannot thank you too much for this evidence of your kindly feeling and this tribute to my humble efforts to serve my community and my race well. I am glad that I am able to stand in the path of attack, when the assault upon my people was made, and finally to come out of the contest bringing with me a victory that not only redounds to the honor and glory of the colored American, but which should also be regarded as a sign of hope and encouragement to every colored boy in our land. If my work as a judge or as a teacher has been done well, the foundation for it was laid in the halls and in the class rooms of Harvard, from whose doors no man is ever driven because of his race, and where the struggle for the prize is based on brain in the lecture hall and brawn and skill on the campus. Fair Harvard "Thou, taught by Fate to know Jehovah's plan, That man's devices can't unmake a man, An' whose free latch-string never was drawed in Against the poorest child of Adam's kin." Future Home Situated in Fashionable Washington Suburb. Washington.--Now that the Wilson- McAdoo wedding is over, one great postnuptial fact stands out prominently: The McAdoos are going to live in a cottage! This has come as something of a shock to Washington society, which, when it heard the news, elevated its eyebrows and emitted a little murmur of surprise. But it will be jarring to certain of a sentimental cast of mind to learn that the "cottage" of the McAdoos will be a cottage in name only. It's something on the order of the "cottages down at Newport" that Cohan used to sing about long years ago, and the cottage which the McAdoos are reported to be taking is situated at Chevy Chase, not far from the Chevy Chase club, of which President Wilson is a member. A cottage at Chevy Chase comes very near being the kind of house known in 1880 as a mansion. Chevy Chase is the most exclusive suburb of all the suburbs around the capital, and the man who buys a house there finds his deed quite full of clauses, stipulating everything from the price of the house he must build on the lot to the color and nationality of the man to whom he may sell his property if ever he goes broke. Therefore it seems that the mere re- ing Mr. Pitman and Mr. Chapman to tinker with the machine. Raising the curtains within the hearse, the way-farers enjoyed the trip to Spokane. The big black vehicle rolled through country and villages while spectators looked aghast at the smiling faces of women and children that peeped out at them. When the hearse reached the suburbs of Spokane bystanders looked horror stricken to see a party of four live persons emerge and get aboard a street car. SAW GARRISON, ALL OF HIM. Man Looking For War Secretary Found Him Just Out of Bath. Washington.--Secretary of War Garrison tells the following story on himself apropos of the approaching heated term: "Last summer I went on a tour of inspection of the western forts. On one of the hottest days of the year I finished looking over Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and then motored to Kansas City. I went straight to my hotel, filled the bathtub with water, and luxuriated. After the bath and before drying I started a parade up and down the room, enjoying the river breezes that strained through the windows. All at once the door was burst open a wild eyed young man said in surprised tones: "'I want to see the secretary of war.' "'Well, take a good look,' I said. 'You'll never see any more of him than you do right now.'" LOWER CALIFORNIA A RICH PENINSULA Facts About Territory Where Valuable Resources Abound. Washington.--Lower California, Mexico's isolated peninsula, the coast of which the Pacific fleet of the United States is now patrolling, is one of the least known territories in North America. The following facts concerning this arm of land, which projects about 800 miles southeasterly from the southern boarder of California, were given out by the National Geographic society at Washington: The width of the peninsula varies from about thirty to more than a hundred miles, and its irregular coast line, over 2,000 miles long, is bordered by numerous islands. Being mainly a mountainous, desert region, it is thinly peopled and presents many sharply contrasting conditions. Low sun scorched plains, where death by thirst awaits the traveler, lie close to the bases of towering granite peaks, belted by forests and capped in winter by snow. Desolate plateaus of lack lava look down on valleys seamed with green bordered streams. At the time of its discovery in 1533 by an expedition sent out by Cortes in search of a fabulously rich island, it is estimated to have been inhabited by 25,000 Indians, who vigorously resented the intrusion and prevented the newcomers from getting a foothold for more than a century. The Jesuits then cam in and were wonderfully successful in exploring the peninsula and establishing mission. They established three main trails, one along each coast and the third down the middle, which serve as the regular routes of travel today. The Indians have vanished from all parts of their former territory, except a few in the extreme northern end. During the last half century all parts of the territory have bee [F]uture Home Situated in Fashionable Washington Suburb. ______ Washington.- Now that the Wilson-McAdoo wedding is over, one great postnuptial fact stands out prominently: The McAdoos are going to live in a cottage! This has come as something of a shock to Washington society, which, when it heard the news, elevated its eyebrows and emitted a little murmur of surprise. But it will be jarring to certain of sentimental cast of mind to learn that the "cottage" of the McAdoos will be a cottage in name only. It's something on the order of the 'cottages down at Newport" that Conan used to sing about long years ago, and the cottage which the McAdoos are reported to be taking is situated at Chevy Chase, not far from the Chevy Chase club, of which President Wilson is a member. A cottage at Chevy Chase comes very near being the kind of house known in 1880 as a mansion. Chevy Chase is the most exclusive suburb of all the suburbs around the capital, and the man who buys a house there finds his deed quite full of clauses, stipulating everything from the price of the house he must build on the lot to the color and nationality of the man to whom he may sell his property if ever he goes broke. Therefore it seems that the mere re- dows. All at once the door was burst open and wild eyed young man said in surprised tones: "'I want to see the secretary of war.' "'Well, take a good look,' I said. 'You'll never see any more of him than you do right now.'" _________________ LOWER CALIFORNIA A RICH PENINSULA _________ Facts About Territory Where Valuable Resources Abound. _________ Washington.- Lower California, Mexico's isolated peninsula, the coast of which the Pacific fleet of the United States is now patrolling, is one of the least known territories in North America. The following facts concerning this arm of land, which projects about 800 miles southeasterly from the southern border of California, were given out by the National geographic society at Washington: The width of the peninsula varies from about thirty to more than a hundred miles, and its irregular coast line, over 2,000 miles long, is bordered by numerous islands. Being mainly a mountainous, desert region, it is thinly peopled and presents many sharply contrasting conditions. Low sun scorched plains, where death by thirst awaits the traveler, lie close to the bases of towering granite peaks, belted by forests and capped in winter by snow. Desolate plateaus of black lava look down on valleys seamed with green bordered streams. At the time of its discovery in 1533 by an expedition sent out be Cortes in search of a fabulously rich island, it is estimated to have been inhabited by 25,000 Indians, who vigorously resented the intrusion and prevented the newcomers from getting a foothold for more than a century. The Jesuits then came in and were wonderfully successful in exploring the peninsula and establishing missions. They established three main trails, one along each coast and the third down the middle, which serve as the regular routes of travel today. The Indians have vanished from all parts of their former territory, except a few in the extreme northern end. During the last half century all parts of the territory have been visited, mainly by Americans, in search of mines and other natural resources, but little of the knowledge gained has become available to the public. Gold, silver, copper, iron and other minerals and much fertile land have been found, but the scarcity of water, fuel and forage and the difficulties of transportation have united with other causes to bring about failure to develop the resources. The climate of Lower California in general is hot and arid. Northern conditions are closely like those in adjoining parts of southern California; in the middle they are more arid, but the extreme southern end, though arid tropical, has more regular summer rains. The peninsula suffers long periods of drought, during which no rainfall sufficient to start vegetation occurs over large areas for periods of from three to five years. These dry periods may be succeeded by torrential rains, which sweep the country and roll great floods down to the sea. The peninsula is thinly peopled, and enormous areas remain uninhabited. The most populous section is the region south of La Paz, where rains are more regular than further north. A few small towns and widely scattered communities along the coast, with a limited number of villages, ranches, and miner's camps in the interior, cover the population. demand five and one-tenth mines mane line and two miles of sidetrack. For the three years ended Dec. 31, 1913, passenger earnings of the Waterville road were $14,465; freight received, $14,279.79; freighted forwarded, $12,147.92; miscellaneous, mail, etc., $11,020.50; total, $51,913.21. The highest priced ticket on the system is 35 cents, and this covers the whole line, and more than 50,000 passengers had to be carried with a single engine and one coach to make the earnings shown. Ten cents is the first class freight rate of the line, and much freight is hauled at as low as 11/2 vents per 100 pounds. More than 45,000,000 pounds had to be brought into Waterville to earn $14,279.79. The road was built and is operated b the people it serves. ___________________ Had "Wad;" Slept In Furnace. St. Louis.--Because his clothes were mussed and his face dirty Edward Pelzer was arrested here as a "suspicious character." At the station the police were amazed to find all his pockets stuffed with greenbacks and goldbacks, totaling $2,940. Fail in Effort to Force Terrell Confirmation Administration Senators, Backed by Republicans, Are beaten by Two-hour Filibuster. TO BLOCK OTHER NOMINATIONS An unsuccessful effort was made in the executive session of the senate yesterday afternoon by administration Senators, backed by Republicans, to force the confirmation of the nomination of Robert H. Terrell, colored, for the municipal judge of the district. Terrell has served in that position for several years, having been appointed originally by President Roosevelt. He was reappointed by President Wilson on the recommendation of Attorney General McReynolds, who told the President that Terrell was the most satisfactory municipal judge of the 5 serving in the district. He was indorsed for reappointment by the bench and bar of Washington. Senator Vardaman and Senator Hoke Smith have led the fight to defeat Terrell's confirmation. Senator Vardaman declares that he will fight to the last ditch to defeat the confirmation. There was a succession of roll calls on motions to adjourn and repeated demands for a quorum when the friends of the administration sought to bring the nomination to a vote this afternoon. A fillibuster that lasted for two hours prevented a vote, and the Senate finally adjourned for want of a quorum. Senators who are supporting Terrell have served notice on the opposition that they will not allow any other nominations to be confirmed until the Terrell case is disposed of. Many southern Senators who have heretofore supported the President in everything have revolted at the Terrell nomination and declare they will never vote to confirm him. The objection to him is purely racial. The appointee is an able lawyer, and has made an efficient judge. He was serving on the board of education in Washington when president Roosevelt made him a judge. Miss Burleson's Kitten Dies. Miss Lucy H. Burleson, oldest daughter of Postmaster General Burleson, yesterday morning carried a newly born kitten to a lecture at George Washington University after finding it in a box in the rear of one of the university buildings. After class Miss Burleson found the kitten dead. A big cat, seen sitting on the the back fence, is though to have killed it. Fear for Austrian Ruler. Special Cable to The Washington Herald. Paris, April 16- The ill health of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is exciting the utmost alarm in court circles, according to Vienna telegram to the excelsior today. The eighty-three-year old monarch contracted a cold several days ago, which has rapidly become worse. Because of the increasing feebleness of the aged Emperor, he spends most of his time at the Schonbrun Palace. where two physicians are constantly in attendance. SUN, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914. REV. W. C. THOMPSON, D. D. ____ At the rise of the M. E. Conference at Annapolis, Md., last April, the Rev. Dr. W. C. Thompson was returned to the Mt. Zion M. E. Church in Georgetown. This is the largest church in the city, having an actual membership of 800. It includes in its membership some of the most substantial citizens of the District. Dr. Thompson begins now his second year as pastor. The work last year was in every way successful. The doctor was therefore enabled to carry the annual conference the largest report in the history of the church. This means to say that there was a larger budget of money raised and the largest accession of members. That the church was glad to have him back is attested by the cordial reception he has received. Two public receptions have been given him and family since his return from the Conference. The promises are bright for another prosperous year. The church is alive and active in all of its departments. A grand rally has been planned, the mark has been set at $2,000. The doctor and officers are confident that this sum will be realized. This financial rally is to be followed by a revival of religion, here too, the aim is a large ingathering of souls. Dr. Thompson is a young man, in the prime of life, well equipped for the work to which he has been called. He is a graduate of the College Department of Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, also a theological graduate of Drew Theological Seminary, in N. J. He has done some special study at Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., and at the North Western University. The doctor, like most well trained men, say very little of the degrees he has won by school work. We have found out that Lincoln gave him the degree of A. B. at the completion of his college work and M. A. after some years of experience and presenting a satisfactory thesis the New Orleans University honored itself and Rev. Thompson by conferring upon him the degree of D. D. He has pastored some of the lead- Lieut, Thomas H. R. Clarke acquitted himself with credit as master of ceremonies. Immediately after the speaking, the floor was cleared and a long and delightful program of modern dances begun. Music was furnished by Wooding's Smart Set Orchestra. Luncheon was served ad lib throughout the evening and many good things were on the menu. The reception was well attended by beautifully gowned ladies. Among those present were: Mrs. R. H. Terrell, who wore cream messaline and lace with over-skirt of black, real lace; Mrs. H. C. Scurlock, white lace, crystal trimmings, over nile green messaline; Mrs. Hattie Hyman, shadow lace and chiffon, over pink crepe, silver trimmings; Mrs. Charles E. Hall, black lace and chiffon; Miss Marie C. James, old rose charmeuse, draped chiffon, with pearls; Mrs. Josephine Kenny, gold embroidered black net with green trimmings, diamond ornaments; Miss Pearle Lewis, cream messaline and thread lace; Miss Helen Gordon, hand-painted Parisian gown; Mrs. A. M. Curtis, black net with jet trimmings; Mrs. Carrie Clifford, wisteria charmeuse; Dr. J. P. H. Coleman, black lace, over garnet Crepe de Chine with pearl ornaments; Mrs. Zeta R. Johnson, spangle net over pink satin; Mrs. Roscoe Bruce, cream messaline and lace; Mrs. B. K. Bruce, grey charmeuse and lace; Mrs. Daniel Freeman, pale blue messaline and lace; Mrs. Blanche Stafford, tan ratine; Mrs. C. W. Childs, brocade tan satin with real lace and pearls, American Beauty corsage; Mrs. W. L. Houston, crepe meteor with real lace; Mrs. Bismark Pinchback, green Crepe de Chine over pink satin with pearl trimmings; Miss Florence Brooks, black lace over satin trimmed with peacock blue; Miss Lois Holt, blue Crepe de Chine with lace; Miss Rosa B. Childs, salmon satin, white Mexican lace, garnished with opalescent beads and green chiffon; Mrs. Arthur Brooks, pink charmeuse and lace; Miss Ida V. Jenkins, cream voile and shadow lace; Mrs. r. West, blue meteor with lace trimmings. There were many other very handsome gowns that beggars of description. The managing committee was made up of Col. Arthur Brooks, chairman; W. H. Clifford, A. O. Stafford, Chas. E. Hall and Thomas H. R. Clarke. Arthur Brooks, J. W. Clifford, Bismark R. Pinchback and Henry W. Freeman constituted the floor committee. Nearly one hundred prominent representatives of the social, business, professional and official life of the Capital were members of the re- [ Friday, JUNE 5, 1914. [???] committee, and all did their [?????]well. [?????] race did itself proud in tender- [?????]his merited testimonial to the [?????] colored judge on the American [?????] ent and the enthusiasm [dis-] [?????] indicates a healthful condition [?????] public mind. [?????] 2 a. m. the happy gathering [?????] in with Wooding's new orchestra [?????]n: "Long Live the Judge!" [?????]s passed into history the most [?????] worthy banquet ever tendered [?????] -ember of the race in the Capital [?????]ARKS BY ROBERT H. TERRELL May 29, 1914. [?????] -d Gentlemen: [?????] take more than the mere [?????] -ties of speech to express [?????] -tude to you for the honor [?????] have done me tonight. For [?????] an indefinable something in [?????] is that prompts this occa- [?????] that cannot find its full measure [?????] -se in words, however eloquent- [?????] may be spoken. I thank you, [?????] men of the committee especially [?????] all that you have done to bring [?????] ent to a completion altogether [?????] irable in itself, so fully compli- [?????] -y to me, and more than all [?????] rthy of the great and, I hope, [?????] atial victory which our race has [?????] -n over the forces of oppression [?????] epression -- forces that would [?????] our way to the goal sought by [?????] -n in our republic -- the attain- [?????] and retention of all of those [?????] that are enjoyed and freely ex- [?????] by every other element in our [?????] -politan citizenship. [?????] w years ago we celebrated in [?????] -ountry the 300th anniversary of [?????] -st settlement of white men in [?????]-a. A few years hence will [?????]s upon another ter-centennial -- [?????]-th anniversary of the introduc- [?????] slavery into the American Col- [?????] And singularly enough, James - [?????] in Virginia, was the scene of [?????]-f these historic events. The [?????] these historic events. The [?????] has advanced an immeasurable [?????] since his ancestors first set [?????] American soil. From 1619 to [?????] yielded his liberty and gave [?????] unrequited to a master; [?????]-ody and his intellect he [?????]over to an institution that [?????] have ground to powder a less [?????] He has done more [?????]-mply survive these hard condi- [?????] He has proved himself equal [?????]severe and exacting demands [?????]-rican civilization in all of its [?????]-orms. His speech is the same [?????]of the white Americans, his [?????]-me religious faith and it must [?????]-hat his aspirations and ideals [?????]-ilar to those of his white [?????] and he will not be denied [?????]-lment and satisfaction of his [?????] and ambitions without that [?????] is in keeping with the [?????] -nd courage of a freeman and [?????] -fledged citizen. [?????] the days of Reconstruction, [?????]-n some thoughtless men of [?????]race now affect to despise [?????]-eclare were harmful to us, [?????] statesmen of the country [?????]freedom for the Negro with- [?????] -allot would be the merest [?????] And when Negro suffrage [?????] -ed on the floor of the Sen- [?????] -nin Wade, of Ohio, in one [?????]and stirring speeches said, [?????] contempt, I cannot name, [?????] -n will not award to [?????]else." Shall we then de- [?????] for ourselves than our [?????] demanded and are today [?????]demanded and are today [?????]for us? [?????]-hat the black man's career [?????] -itinent has been marve- [?????]-y particulars; marvelous [?????]-larity to that of all other [?????]-arvelous in its striking [?????]To have been trans- [?????] a slave to a free- [?????] in a day was a won- [?????] [?????] [?????] [?????] [?????] MASSAGING AND SHAMPOOING A SPECIALTY Shoes polished TRUE REFORMERS' HALL, 1204 YOU STREET NORTHWEST W.S. 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I thank you, men of the committee especial- all that you have done to bring ent to a completion altogether irable in itself, so fully compli- y to me, and more than all thy of the great and, I hope, ntial victory which our race has n over the forces of oppression epression - forces that would our way to the goal sought by in our republic - the attain- and retention of all of those that are enjoyed and freely ex- by every other element in our olitan citizenship. w years ago we celebrated in untry the 300th anniversary of st settlement of white men in a. A few years hence will s upon another ter-centennial- th anniversary of the introduc- slavery into the American Col- And singularly enough, James- n Virginia, was the scene of f these historic events. The has advanced an immeasurable since his ancestors first set American soul. From 1619 to e yielded his liberty and gave il unrequited to a master; ody and his intellect he over to an institution that have ground to powder a less He has done more mply survive these hard condi- He has proved himself equal severe and exacting demands rican civilization in all of its orms. His speech is the same of the white Americans, his me religious faith and it must hat his aspirations and ideals ilar to those of his white and he will not be denied ment and satisfaction of his and ambitions without that hat is in keeping with the nd courage of a freeman and fladged citizen. the days of Reconstruction, n some thoughtless men of race now affect to despise clare were harmful to us, statesmen of the country reedom for the Negro suffrafe ed on the floor of the Sen- min Wade, of Ohio, in one and stirring speeches said, contempt, I cannot name, n will contend for rights that will not award to else." Shall we then de- for ourselves than our demanded and are today for us? hat the black man's career tinent has been marve- y particulars; marvelous lartity to that of all other arcelous in its striking To have been trans- a slave to a free- in a day was a won- phosis! The tremen- s of more than two cen- age and oppression wasw e some unfavorable im- he character of its vic- re when we study our ust be frank with our- se we shall not be able at solution so devoutly Our weaknesses grow ons that are not the nights, nor can they be the efforts of day. der this it seems to me a part of wisdom for t with ourselves and s with a reasonable hich one of you, who pon the ruins of the and beheld the pros- e quondam master, if f the future " would ithin a dozen years he ex-slave would be Senator, a member of use of Representa- of a State and a for- nd whose prophetic d on page 8 8 THE WASHINGTON HOWARD GRADUATION Continued from page 1 bar examinations generally all over the country and entering successfully into practice. A 1913 man, Harry Capeheart, of West Virginia, reports cash received in ten months' practice, $1,800. The fellows of the department are enthusiastic. Graduates, 28. The Medical School The school of Medicine of Howard University occupies an enviable position in the educational world. It is everywhere recognized as the one school for colored students that compares favorably with the best medical schools of the country. It has a strong faculty, of recognized ability and by reason of its close association with the Freedmen's Hospital it is able to give to its students the actual bedside contact with patients which is so essential to a thorough training in medicine. The results of this training are shown by the fact that the percentage of failures before State Examination Boards is less for Howard than for many more pretentious schools. The laboratories of the school are equipped with the most modern apparatus and every effort is made to keep this equipment up to the mark. Most of the laboratories are in the charge of men who give their entire time to teaching. Graduates in medicine, 32; dental, 25; pharmacists, 9. The Teachers' College. The Teachers' College is just closing a very successful year with the graduating classes as follows: Normal training class, 4; domestic science and domestic art classes, 5; bachelor degrees, 21. Total, 34. During the past year the faculty has been increased by the addition of two very able instructors. Prof. McLeod Harvey comes with a Ph. D. degree which he won at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Prof. Charles H. Wesley holds a Master of Art's degree from Yale University. Some of the best colleges in this country and Europe are represented in the teaching corps of this college. Among the notable things of the year was the publication of the Teachers' college edition of the Howard University Record. This is the first time there has been a setting forth of this college in such a clear light as to show what it has really accomplished From the publication we quote the following which is a splendid summarization of what has been done and a prophecy of what may be done in the future: "Since its foundation, the Teachers' College has graduated 245 students, who are distributed through twenty- two States, the District of Columbia, Africa, and the Philippine contains much interesting information of the occupations of the graduates and the distribution of those who are giving themselves to teaching. "The number of graduates listed in table I who have entered the teaching and other professions is 200; number prevented from teaching generally by personal illness or illness in their families, 10; pursuing further studies, 7; engaged in Social Service work, 3; in the gospel ministry, 2; practicing law, 2; dentistry, 1; miscellaneous, 16. The total number of graduates of this first section is 245. The distribution of teachers and the grade of schools in which they teach are: colleges, 12; normal schools, 22; academics, 3; high schools, 17; industrial schools, 15; kindergartens, 25; public, city, and rural schools, 105. The wide distribution of these graduates extends the influence of Howard University and also shows the good work which the Teachers' College is doing." Graduates, 34. The graduates of this year have been placed as follows. two will remain in the university offices; one will enter his father's business, another is planning to enter The Wharton school of Finance and Commerce at Philadelphia; one will enter the collegiate department of Howard University; another the government department. Graduates, 10. Howard's New School. The School of Manual Arts and Applied Sciences of Howard University offers thorough courses in Home Economics, and Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. In the Department of Home Economics, two and four year courses are given in Domestic Science and Domestic Art. Students finishing the four-year course in either group receive the degree of Bachelor of Science, and teacher's diplomas, while the two-year students receive teacher's certificates only. The work in Domestic Science is very complete, and comprises laboratory work in cooking, food chemistry, sex hygiene, sanitation, etc., and recitation work in psychology, English, German or French, history, etc. Thorough practical work in hand and machine sewing, basketry, needlework, millinery, etc., is required in the Domestic Art course, as well as the purely academic courses required in Domestic Science. The courses in engineering cover four years work, and lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in engineering. The school is constantly purchasing new equipment to meet its demands, and also, to supplement that already in place. In all of the engineering courses, a good solid foundation of mathematics and science, is first secured, and on that foundation, the more specialized studies of the Junior and Senior year rest. The Academy. The present enrollment, 450, is the largest in the history of the school. The students are younger and are testimonials of the improving home life of the race. "The certificates of graduation from the academy are accepted by the leading colleges which admit on certificate. The faculty of the academy points with pride to the records of many of its graduates who have entered Eastern schools." Honorary degrees were [?]ferred as follows: D. O. W. Holmes, of Baltimore, M. A.; D. D. upon Rev. Allan Hudson, Brockton, Mass., and on Rev. D. Butler Pratt; LL. D. upon Dr. Charles B. Purvis, Boston, Mass., and Dr. Neal F. Graham, of Washington, D. C. _________________ TERRELL BANQUET Continued from page 7 soul could have peered into the future still further and foretold that in a short period of time this same ex- slave would be cast down from his lofty place in the state, stripped of his newly acquired dignities and honors, oppressed, hated, persecuted and even denied the protection of the laws of his country? Yet this was the fact. Such a great career of contrast for a people has no parallel in history. Yet I believe that in no far distant day the Negro will come to the front along lines of a natural development, better and stronger man. For the laws which determine the destinies of individuals, races, and nations are impartial and eternal. The black man has done well under the old leadership, which was intense in purpose and strong in action, but for obvious reasons could not get a substantial footing in our great scheme of government. But a new leadership is now asserting itself--a leadership composed of men trained in the best schools of the world, able to study and dissect abstruse as well as practical governmental problems. REV. JOSEPH H. LEE. ______ Rev. Joseph H. Lee, the progressive pastor of the St. Phillip's Church, and vice president of the tist Ministers' and Laymen's U the District of Columbia and v is doing a commendable work field of labor. He is in the year of service to this church, tributes his success to persona going in and out of the homes people, and in this way he has many to the church, and is high [Picture] [Caption: REV. JOSEPH H. LEE.] teemed. by all. Sunday May 24th was a joy in connection with the other the Communion service was t service of the day, which was ed by an old time covenent followed by strong and forc marks by the pastor, and the tration of the Lord's Supper pastor read a letter from M W. Cusberd, a son of one founders of the church, in sends $5.-- to the church, other activities, says Rev. Lee trast with eight years ago, is lous, indeed, and the glory be God. Rev. Lee is a graduate of University and has been a minister for fifteen years. day School is in a flourishing picnic on August 8th. Special week services begin Sunday continuing until the Sunday, closing with co services. ______________________________ fight to win the prize. No whom liberty is given can firmly or wear it so grandly who wrench their liberty iron hand of the tyrant. ships and dangers involve struggle give strength and to the character, and ena stand firm in storms as sunshine." In conclusion, let me say I, thank you for this eviden friendship. I appreciate words of approval that from the lips of those spoken. And if I have re credit upon the colored p country by my work as a in the years that have p particularly proud of the here at my home should work as worthy of your and a justification of meeting of the best men of our race. And from it gives me the keenest thank the President of States and his courage General as well as the Nation for the tribute the Negro by giving him tion on the bench at the tal, so that the nations may learn through th representatives who are our government that in our country the Negro nized as a man and a be too fulsome of the laboratories are in the charge of men who give their entire time to teaching. Graduates in medicine, 32; dental, 25; pharmacists, 9. The Teachers' College. The Teachers' College is just closing a very successful year with the graduating classes as follows: Normal training class, 4; kindergarten training class, 4; domestic science and domestic art classes, 5; bachelor degrees, 21. Total, 34. During the past year the facility has been increased by the addition of two very able instructors. Prof. McLeod Harvey comes with a Ph. D. degree which he won at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Prof. Charles H. Wesley holds a Master of Art's degree from Yale University. Some of the best colleges in the country and Europe are represented in the teaching corp of this college. Among the notable things of the year was the publication of the Teachers' College edition of the Howard University Record. This is the first time there has been a setting forth of this college in such a clear light as to show what it has really accomplished From the publication we quote the following which is a splendid summarization of what has been done and a prophecy of what may be done in the future: "Since its foundation, the Teachers' College has graduated 245 students, who are distributed through twenty-two States, the District of Columbia, Africa, and the Philippine Islands. Table I of the phamphlet contains much interesting information of the occupations of the graduates and the distribution of those who are giving themselves teaching. "The number of graduates listed in table I who have entered the teaching and other professions is 200; number prevented from teaching general by personal illness or illness in their families, 10; pursuing further studies, 7; engaged in Social Service work, 3; in the gospel ministry, 2; practicing law, 2; dentistry, 1; miscellaneous 16. The total number of graduates of this first section is 245. The distribution of teachers and the grade of schools in which they teach are: colleges, 12; normal schools, 22; academies 3; high schools 17; industrial schools, 15; kindergartens, 25; public, city, rural schools, 105. The wide distribution of these graduates extends the influence of Howard University and also shows the good work which the Teachers' College is doing" Graduates, 34. The Commercial College. This has been a banner year for the Commercial College of Howard University. Interest in all lines of work has been stimulated by a number of prizes offered by former graduates and friends. The Carrie R. Burton-Overton prize of $5 for the highest general average in shorthand was won by Mr. Augustus M. Addison. The Helen E. Kilbreth-Phillips prize of $5 for the highest general average in typewriting was won by Mr. Chester D. Patience. The C. Benjamin Curley prize of $5 for the best practical book-keeper was won by Mr. J. Irwin Washington. The David E. Wells prize for the highest speed in shorthand was won by Mr. Augustus M. Addison. The S.B. Whitehead prize (Whitehead College, Asbury Park, N. J.) of $5 for the life story of a Negro, man or woman, in business today was won by Mr. Roland W. Bradley. The Irene Johnson prize of $5 for the best account of The Negro Woman in Economic Life Today was won by Mr. Augustus M. Addison. purely academic courses required in Domestic Science. The courses in engineering cover four years work, and lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in engineering. The school is constantly purchasing new equipment to meet its demands, and also, to supplement that already in place. In all of the engineering courses, a good solid foundation of mathematics and science, is first secured, and on that foundation, the more specialized studies of the Junior and Senior year rest. The Academy. The present enrollment, 450, is the largest in the history of the school. The students are younger and are testimonials of the improving home life of the race. "The certificates of graduation from the academy are accepted by the leading colleges which admit on certificate. The faculty of the academy points with pride to the records of many of its graduates who have entered Eastern schools." Honorary degrees were [?]ferred as follows: D. O. W. Holmes, of Baltimore, M. A.; D. D. upon Rev. Allan Hudson, Brockton, Mass., and on Rev. D. Butler Pratt; LL. D. upon Dr. Charles B. Purvis, Boston, Mass., and Dr. Neal F. Graham, of Washington, D. C. TERRELL BANQUET Continued from page 7 soul could have peered into the future still further and foretold that in a short period of time this same ex-slave would be cast down from his lofty place in the state, stripped of his newly acquired dignities and honors, oppressed, hated, persecuted and even denied the protection of the laws of his country? Yet this was the fact. Such a career of contrast for a people has no parallel in history. Yet I believe that in no far distant day the Negro will come to the front along lines of a natural development, better and stronger man. For the laws which determine the destinies of individuals, races, and nations are impartial and eternal. The black man has done well under the old leadership, which was intense in purpose and strong in action, but for obvious reasons could not get a substantial footing in our great scheme of government. But a new leadership is now asserting itself--a leadership composed of men trained in the best schools of the world, able to study and dissect abstruse as well as practical governmental problems. This leadership is not only demanding for the people untrammeled rights at the ballot box, but it is also laying stress on the necessity of becoming a part of the great industrial development in this mighty, active and sleepless civilization that makes our country a powerful and dominating influence in markets of the world. It is true that there are at present conditions in this country growing out of discriminations on account of race which are not favorable to us as a people, yet I believe that our day has dawned and our sun has risen; and there is nothing more certain that when the sun has once come above the horizon it will keep its course on to the fullness of noonday. Our illustrious kinsman, Frederick Douglass once said, "Take courage from the example of all religious denominations that have sprung up since Martin Luther. Each in its turn has been oppressed and persecuted. Yet all in turn have conquered the prejudice and hate of their surroundings. Greatness does not come to any people of flowery beds of ease. We must REV. JOSEPH H. LE teemed by all. Sunday, May 24th was a joy in connection with the other the Communion service was t service of the day, which was ed by an old time covenant followed by strong and for marks by the pastor, and the tration of the Lord's Suppe pastor read a letter from M W. Cusberd, a son of one founders of the church, in w sends $5.00 to the church, t other activities, says Rev. Le trast with eight years ago, is lous, indeed, and the glory be God. Rev. Lee is a graduate of University and has been a s minister for fifteen years. day School is in a flourishin tion. They are planning for picnic on August 8th. Special week services begin Sunday continuing until the Sunday, closing with com services. fight to win the prize. No whom liberty is given can firmly or wear it so grandly who wrench their liberty iron hand of the tyrant. ships and dangers involve struggle give strength and to the character, and ena stand firm in storms as sunshine." In conclusion, let me say I thank yo for this evide friendship. I appreciate words of approval that from the lips of those spoken. And if I have re credit upon the colored pe country by my work as a in the years that have p particularly proud of the f here at my home should work as worthy of your and a justification of t meeting of the best men of our race. And from it gives me the keenest thank the President of States and his courage General as well as the Nation for the tribute t the Negro by giving hi tion on the bench at th tal, so that the nations may learn through th representatives who ar our government that in our country the Negro nized as a man and a cannot be too fulsome members of the bar, and the presses of their active, persisten demand for my ret bench. Never di dany loyal and earnest su which came to me fro Such a victory as should be an ispirat ored man in our lan urge you to be patien discouraged and not fight for better th honors, even though fail in the struggle. singers, Paul Lawre said in verse: "The man who is s fight, And whose will no If truth be truth a Is the man that th Tho' he fail and di Yet he has not fled And the house of e sweet For the perfume o [*Washington DC Times Jan 11 - 1914*] Three Judges To Step From Bench Four of the Five Jurists in the Municipal Court will be Job-less Saturday (Continued from First Page.) fore an austere judge with surroundings of great dignity, "they would leave their goats outside." Not since the court was instituted, nearly five years ago, have the judges been changed. Four of them have seen long service as justices of the peace, and all five have served continuously on the Municipal Court, making a fine record for that institution. Lawyers Laud Court. Attorneys practicing before the bar have many fine things to say about the court as an institution and as at present constituted. This does not mean an enthusiastic and overwhelming enthusiasm four things as they are. There are some criticisms, some perhaps just and some perhaps unjust. One member of the bar pointed out that to many it seemed futile to make a fine point of law before the Municipal Court because it was not appreciated. This is answered by another prominent member of the bar with the statement that the court is an outgrowth of the old justice of the peace system. There is little, if any, technical pleading before the court. Law and equity and common sense are more the basis of judgment, this member pointed out. And he declared the fact that fine points of law are not appreciated is more a recommendation than a disparagement. It is this, perhaps, that makes the strongest appeal as the poor man's court. The court has another distinction. It has the only full-fledged honest-to-goodness colored judge in the United States. This distinction is claimed by Judge Robert H. Terrell. There are colored justices of the peace and other colored law officers of one kind or another, but Judge Terrell and his friends hold that he is the only real out-and-out jurist who sits upon the bench in a fully constituted United States court, Have a Great Esteem. Judge Terrell has other achievements. Though colored, he has, practically without exception, the esteem, it seems, of every member of the bar who has come before his court. Attorneys approached on the subject have many commendatory statements to make both as to the personality and ability of Judge Terrell. He is described as uniformly courteous, considerate in his treatment of all men, and commanding respect for ability to maintain the respect and regard of those who appear before him, regardless of race or color. That he has maintained the dignity of his court and discharge his duties with faithfulness and ability, will be testified to by a host of attorneys. There are many who would welcome his reappointment, irrespective of color. One man prominent in the bar association of the District, who is an out-and-out Democrat and a strong adherent of partisan politics in the fullest sense, and who believes that all offices should be held by Democrats in a [??] [?] And those who for a long time battled with it and sought to change it are now frankly and honorably yielding to it and seeking to conform their actions to it. The great business men who organized and finance monopoly and those who administered it in actual everyday transactions have year after year, until now, either denied its existence or justified it as necessary for the effective maintenance and development of the vast business processes of the country in the modern Circumstances of trade and manufacture and finance; but all the while opinion has made head against them. The average business man is convinced that the ways of liberty are also the ways of peace and the ways of success as well; and at last the masters of business on the great scale have begun to yield their preference and purpose, perhaps there judgment also, an honorable surrender. Square Business With the Law. What we are purchasing to do, therefore, is, happily, not to hamper or interfere with business as enlightened business men prefer to do it, or in any sense to put it under the ban.The antagonism between business and government is over. We are now about to give expression to the best business judgment of America, two what we know to be the business conscience and honor of the land. The Government and business men are ready to meet each other halfway in a common effort to square business methods with both public opinion and the law. The best informed men of the business world condemn the methods and processes and consequences of monopoly as we condemn them; and the instinctive judgment of the vast majority of business men everywhere goes with them. We shall now be their spokesman. That is the strength of [?] and the sure prophecy [?] [?] back on the beach. Not until the gale began to moderate were the efforts of the life savers successful. ---- PICKS TWO D.C. JUDGES [*Evening Star*] McReynolds Said to Favor the Reappointment of Bundy and Terrell. [*Jan 14, 1914*] News from a trustworthy quarter around Attorney General McReynolds is that he has determined to recommend to President Wilson the reappointment of judges Charles S. Bundy and Robert H. Terrell as judges of the Municipal Court of the District. So far as can be ascertained, he is prepared to make recommendations at this time only as to these two. Whether the failure to agree upon judges Callan and Stryker is to be regarded as inimical to them could not be learned today. Although the oldest member of the court in point of years, Judge Bundy's record on the municipal bench is said to have impressed the Attorney General and drawn from him complements. Judge Terrell is the only colored judge on the bench, and Mr. McReynolds is said to have reached the conclusion that he deserves another term. Mr. McReynolds probably will see the President this afternoon or tomorrow to submit his recommendations. ----- Henry Spencer Not to Hang. CHICAGO, January 14. — Henry Spencer will not be hanged next Friday for the murder of Mrs. Mildred and Allison-Rexroat, as Justice Carter of the Supreme Court of Illinois today granted a writ of supersedeas in the case. This means that the highest court in the state will review the case to decide whether Spencer is entitled to a new trial. His attorneys well alleged that he is insane. Honor Memory JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL Late jurist of Washington, D.C., graduate of Harvard and one of the outstanding lawyers of his day, whose memory will be honored by the National Bar association the week of April 18. Story on page 13. New York, March 30. Judge Terrell and Negro Fitness for Office. To the Editor of The World: Your recent editorial relative to the confirmation of Judge Terrell of the District of Columbia is pertinent and opportune. The article deserves the commendation of every thoughtful citizen. The question the editorial raises is one of more than passing interest, and every intelligent colored voter will watch with solicitude the vote of the Senate. It is, as you state, a well-known fact that Judge Terrell is eminently qualified by ability and experience to successfully discharge the duties of the office for which he has been named. Despite his color and his politics, he has been nominated to succeed himself. President Wilson has recognized the merit in the record Judge Terrell has made. The anticipated opposition of Vardaman and his negro-hating crowd is based upon their prejudice against the race. The issue has been made upon that question alone, and it remains to be seen if the liberal Democrats can break away from the past traditions and history of the party. Has the time arrived when the Northern Democrats are progressive and independent enough to purge themselves of negrophobia and Bourbon prejudice and take an advanced position on the negro question? J. H. PALMER. New York, March 30. [*Please Return*] FRIDAY--MARCH 20--1931 TERREL HONOR SET FOR APRIL The Colored Bar Association of the District met last night at the Mu-So-Lit Club. Through its president, Perry W. Howard, plans are now being completed for Robert H. Terrell memorial week, April 18 to 25. It is planned to inaugurate the ceremonies by holding a "get together" smoker on April 18, at which time the local lawyers will be host to the prominent citizens of the city. Sunday afternoon, April 19, a mass meeting is planned to be held at one of the churches. Terrell was the first colored judge of the District of Columbia. He was on the bench of the Municipal Court. He died [10] years ago. [*The ?????????DC*] HARVARD GRADUATES HONOR JUDGE TERRELL. [*May 29, 1914*] A very delightful function in the nature of a smoker was given last Friday evening, corner Fourteenth and S streets northwest, in honor of Judge Robert H. Terrell of the Municipal Court. The hosts were all Harvard graduates and several of them were out-of-town men. There was a fine supper and plenty of speech making, college reminiscences and singing of college songs. When the party broke up at two o'clock in the morning everybody voted it the most enjoyable affair that Washington had witnessed for a long time. Those who participated were Prof. Richard T. Greener of Chicago, Harvard's first colored graduate, who took his degree in 1870; Dr. W. Winsey of Baltimore, who graduated in 1871; D. A. Brown, Carrington L. Davis, Mason A. Hawkins of Baltimore, T. C. Williams of Manassas, Dr. H. L. Bailey, R. C. Bruce, who made an admirable toastmaster; T. M. Gregory, G. David Houston, Dr. Wm. J. Howard, Jr., A. L. Locke, C. J. Murphy, J. H. N. Waring, Jr., Haley G. Douglass and C. G. Woodson. REV. CURTIS AND HIS NEW CHURCH Special to The Sun: over a report trying to transmute [?] Into gold, synthetic chemistry has filled the the laboratories with young men fresh from college, all at work transmuting industrial substances into new sources of wealth. Andrew Carnegie has testified to what "my chemists" did for steel manufacture, and what they have done with oil is a wonder story of itself. Certainly artificial rubber cheaply produced will the a richer prize to the inventor than artificial gold. ----- THE ISSUE OF JUDGE TERRELL To charges that he was disposed to ignore the claims of the negro to political recognition for the sake of party peace, President Wilson made a good and sufficient answer more than a month ago when he nominated Robert H. Terrell for another term as Judge of the Municipal Court, District of Columbia. Judge Terrell is a graduate of Harvard, a Republican in politics and the only colored man in the country to hold a judicial position of this dignity. His nomination was indorsed by Attorney General McReynolds, a southern man, who is quoted as saying that he found him the best Judge on the municipal bench of the District. This nomination, which went so far in recognition of the colored man as to disregard party politics, has now been reported favorably to the Senate by the Judiciary Committee, but with the dissent of the Southern members and the promise of a fight on the floor against confirmation under the leadership of Mr. Vardaman of Mississippi. It is believed that the nomination will be confirmed. But this is not the whole question. Is it to be confirmed largely by Republicans votes or largely also by Democratic votes? Is the attitude of the Democracy in the Senate toward the colored man to be determined by the Vardamans, who would deny him all equality of opportunity? DELIVERANCE FOR NEW YORK? No other part of the state is more keenly interested in constitutional revision than the city of New York. Under the present instrument There is no such thing as home rule. The great vote by which Mr. Mitchel was elected Mayor last fall was effective in some respects, but in others, as in the matter of police reform and reorganization, it has been nullified at Albany. Because the Legislature is empowered by the constitution of 1894 to regulate municipal affairs, political machines and police systems that were condemned at the polls are able to gain a new lease of life at the capital. In an article to appear in The World of Sunday, Gov. Glenn writes very feelingly on the wider aspects of this subject, and makes an earnest appeal to all New Yorkers to support the proposition for a Constitutional Convention which is to be voted on one week from Tuesday — April 7. NOTED NEGRO JUDGE ----- Will Make an Address at Emory Auditorium on Wednesday. --- Next Wednesday, June 24, will make and epoch for the colored people of this community as Judge Robert H. Terrell of Washington, D. C., The only colored Judge in the United States, will speak at Emory Auditorium. His subject will be "Fifty Years of Freedom." It is most appropriate and no one is better qualified to speak upon it from experience, observation and study. Born at a time when America was in the throws of civil strife, all around him in his sunny Southern home in a little town of Virginia were evidences of destitution. From a lad his lot was cast in sadness, desolation and labor. Early the determination to make a man of himself took possession of his mind and so he began to save money and to study. His father took his family to Washington. "Young Bob" shifted around for himself and many a night the starry heavens formed his only roof. Drifting to Boston he obtained work in a hotel. He entered school, paying the tuition by his labor. Graduating from the high school he became a student at Harvard. Color was no impediment, brain ruled, and soon "Bob" Terrell was Fall fellow well met to the hundreds of students. He continued his work and studies, graduated with honors and was class orator. Returning to Washington he became principal of the high school. Studying law, he was appointed one of the Municipal Judges of Washington. His career in that field was so meritorious that when the Southern Democrats sought to have all of the municipal Judges replaced by others the Bar Association of Washington unanimously endorsed him. He was reappointed. Judge Terrell bears most modestly the many honors accorded him. Four times Grand Master of the Masons in the District of Columbia, a prominent Odd Fellow, he still meets the masses of his people on common ground, ever ready with advice, help or sympathy. His wife is one of the most prominent lecturers in America, speaking with equal facility in several languages. Judge Terrel is here to deliver the address at the request of his old friend W. P. Dabuey, Deputy City Treasurer, who felt that his presence would be an inspiration to the thousands of his people located in this city who do not [?] The wonders that can be accorded by time in patients HARD FIGHT ON NEGRO JUDGE. ----- Southern Senators Against District of Columbia Confirmation. Washington, March 23. — A favorable report was made to-day by the Judiciary Committee to the Senate on the nomination of Robert H. Terrell, a negro, to succeed himself as Municipal Judge of the District of Columbia. Senators Smith of Georgia, Shields, Overman and Reed joined in a minority report. Senator Hoke Smith and Senator Vardaman of Mississippi announced later that they would oppose the confirmation of Terrell to the last ditch. Terrell was appointed by President Roosevelt. Prior to that he had served on the local education board. He is a graduate of Harvard and was indorsed for reappointment by the bench of the District and by most of the bar of Washington and was recommended by Attorney-General McReynolds, who told the Judiciary Committee that Terrell was undoubtedly the best Municipal Judge that Washington has had. ----- M'ADOO SUBWAY STAND FIRM ----- Maintains Objections to Plan to Burrow Under Post Office. Travis H. Whitney, Secretary of the Public Service Commission, who went to Washington on Sunday to argue with Secretary McAdoo about the Government's hesitation about letting the city burrow under the Post Office for one of the new subway lines, sent this telegram to the commission last night: "Conference with Mr. McAdoo held this afternoon. Nothing final accomplished. He maintains his objections and repeats his request for legal and engineering examination of the situation before acting." Mr. McAdoo has asked the city to pay for lawyers and engineers to test the cities claim that the new subway needs a forty foot easement. [*N. Y. Sun Editorial page*] [*March 24, 1914*] STILL CONSIDERING JUDGE TERRELL As this report closes, the Senate is still considering the confirmation of Judge Robert H. Terrell, without having reached a definite conclusion. Lack of a quorum has been the chief obstacle from day to day. Drastic measures are to be taken in the near future to secure action, and news of his confirmation may be expected at any time. Judge Terrell's friends in and out of the Senate express confidence in his ultimate victory. JUDGE TERRELL IS TO BE REAPPOINTED President and McReynolds Have Long Conference Over Jobs in the District. Following a long conference at the White House today by President Wilson and Attorney General McReynolds over District appointments: it has learned that the President and Mr. McReynolds have determined upon the reappointment of Judge Robert H. Terrell, colored, as a member of the municipal bench. It is asserted that Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, who generally has opposed the nomination of colored persons to Federal office, has voiced no objections to Judge Terrell's reappointment. The President desires, it is said, to show by his appointment that he has no prejudices against colored appointments for certain positions, and that he realized that Judge Terrell has made a good record while in office. BURRVILLE AND NORTHEAST COUNTY NOTES. The Executive Board of the Northeast County Citizens' Association will meet at the residence of Mr. R. H. Harrison on Saturday evening, June 6th. Dr. Willis W. Jones, ex-officio; W. T. Chapman, chairman; C. J. Nixon, vice chairman; Homer Mee, R. H. Harrison, J. E. Harris, Ernest Jones, C. C. Harris, Charles Wesley, and Dr. Edward F. Harris. __________ Going away for the summer? Let The Sun go with you. All subscriptions before August 1st, $1.00 per year. __________ Many loyal friends and relatives of Mr. D. W. Turner assembled Thursday, all day and at night, to the entertainment for his benefit. __________ Quite a few persons witnessed the laying of the corner stone of Tabernacle Baptist Church last Sunday, but due to the conflict of the convention at McKinley Baptist Church, many pastors and members were prevented from coming. __________ Gale's Drug Store--ice cream, candy, cigars, etc. Headquarters for The Sun. Spend Sunday in this district and enjoy suburban life. __________ If you are engaged in any line of business, stick to it. Don't be a "jack-of-all-trades" and fail, make a success of one. Advertise in The Sun. __________ ALEXANDRIA NOTES __________ Messrs. 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Republican party of West Virginia placed itself squarely on record as opposed to the disfranchisement of the Negro, and favoring the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the United States Constitution, and the reduction of the South’s representation in Congress, at the State Republican Convention, held May 20th, in this city, to ratify the recommendations of the Republican National Committee. The convention was held in the State Armory and was one of the largest conventions of any party to ever meet in this State. Delegates and members of the party were here from every section of the State, and the keenest interest was manifested in the proceedings as the future of the Republican party was to be largely determined by the action of this convention. “I feel it my duty to say To Suffering Humanity something in regard to Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills. I consider them a godsend, and I myself fail to find words to express my gratitude for such a remedy. Many times when it seemed the pain was too great to go on the platform, I found them a sweet relief. I have used Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills for ten years and will always tell of their benefit to others.” Rev. R. M. Bentley, Lecturer, Shelbyville, Ind. Persons who are easily excited and subject to nervous spells or headache after attending church, the theatre or some social gathering, will find Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills a true friend in a time of need. Carry one or two tablets in your purse or pocket and take them as needed. At all druggists—if the first box fails to benefit, your money is returned. The ballot box; and the Republican Party of West Virginia, in convention assembled, hereby denounces said election laws as unjust and indefensible, and demands that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the United States Constitution be enforced and the Southern States Congressional representation be based upon the actual voting strength under their election laws.” The resolution was presented at the meeting of the State Committee [?]oy Grand Chancellor L. O. Wilson, who was selected to lead the fight in the place of Mr. Nutter, Dr. R. L. Jones refusing to permit Mr. Nutter to attend the convention. The State Committee accepted the resolution with applause and recommended it to the State Convention, and it was passed by the convention unanimously after a brilliant speech by L. O. Wilson, who demanded that the party go on record in no mistakable terms. There was not an objection to the resolution, which was also made one of the planks in the platform adopted by the convention. Hon Phil Waters added much to his brilliant record as reading clerk of the convention. Mr. Waters is considered one of the best informed men in the State on party procedure, and the convention would hear no other clerk except Waters. JUDGE TERRELL HONORED (Continued from page I.) meeting of the best men and women of our race. And from this platform it gives me the keenest pleasure to thank the President of the United States and his courageous Attorney General as well as the Senate of the Nation for the tribute they have paid the Negro by giving him representation on the bench at the federal Capital, so that the Nations of the world may learn through their diplomatic representatives who are accredited to our government that in some parts of our country the Negro is still recognized as a man and a citizen. And I cannot be too fulsome in praise of the members of the bar, the business men and the press of Washington for their active, persistent and insistent demand for my retention on the bench. Never did any man have more loyal and earnest support than that which came to me from these sources. Such a victory as we have won should be an inspiration to every colored man in our land. Therefore, I urge you to be patient and not to get discouraged and not to give up the fight for better things and higher honors, even though some of us must fail in the struggle. That sweetest of singers, Paul Laurence Dunbar has said in verse: Graceful and pleasing. Mrs. A. W. Scott, who always has a charming and pleasing look, was an attractive participant. Dr. Ralph Stewart was never seen so quiet. Mrs. Ed. Williston, like her great husband, could only look on and enjoy others dancing the tango. Dr. Sumner Wormley, the prince of good fellews, never allowed an opportunity to pass. The Judge and his side partner the Major, never stayed off the floor. Every dance, walk and look belonged to them. Dan. Freeman has not lost any of his old time vigor. Like Dr. Williston, is liable to come back again. Will Clifford was in evidence, but the supper was missing. Cold cream was the menu of the evening. Mrs. W. H. Singleton and her charming little sister, Miss Green, were quite in evidence. Miss Maria James looked like an Egyptian Princess. She is not only a pleasing dancer, but a good entertainer. Lord Dunlap Walters was the personification of dignity. James A. Cobb was never idle. Mr. Cobb is always agreeable company. Roscoe C. Bruce never missed a dance. He never means to lose his identity with nature. Mrs. R. C. Bruce was a silent guest, but an admiring one. The Major and the Judge were the two dromios. Attorney Scott left his full dress at home and came near being outlawed. Attorney Jones left before he was outlawed. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Carter were among the lookers on. Mrs. West, wife of Dr. West, was in childhood days. Prof. Williams is able to handle mathematics, but not tango dances. Mrs. Jessie Powell was one among the most charming guests present, Her graceful carriage was the center of attraction. Some one remarked there are Wyatt Archer and Dick Henderson. Alas! The only two left. Dr. Childs was himself again. He has returned to boyhood days. Well, Dr. Cabiniss was a jolly good fellow. Dr. was able to do the tango. Drs. Wheatland and West looked patiently on. Prof. and Mrs. Newman were an enjoyable couple. Prof. Newman is some tango dancer. Prof. Walker is a dignified and graceful dancer. Lieut. Thomas H. Clark is the personification of dignity and grace. Prof. John C. Nalle was present, but said little. Mr. John C. Dancy was not in a dancing humor. Not even the Judge could invigorate him. Will Houston took the dances in. Mrs. Houston doesn't dance. Billie Wilkinson and other crack dancers were not seen upon the floor. Dr. W. L. Board was there. Dr. wore that same smile that will not lose its vigor. Mr. Maurice Clifford knows the tango all right. Everybody was plentifully punched and slightly caked and creamed. The souvenir dancing card was unique. Miss Florence Brooks was very tastily dressed and her dancing was faultless. Miss Ida Jenkins was beautifully gowned. Mrs. Jeannette E. Baltimore was becomingly gowned. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson looked like Lord Chamberlain. His full dress gave him the appearance of a British statesman. Mr. Moria Saunders was with a queen of beauty, who was an adept in tango dancing. Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis were quite in evidence. Mrs. Curtis looked like Queen Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Cook were quietly enjoying the dances. Col. Charles R. Douglas was an attractive participant. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lucas took little part in the tango. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. M. Murray do not dance. Mr. Walter J. Singleton was a surprise. He didn't dance the tango. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Watson don't dance. Their church affiliations preclude them. Mrs. John W. Francis, Jr., and Mrs. Edith Mintor, her sister, were among the fascinating guests. Mrs. Mintor has not lost any of her beauty, refinement and sweetness. Mrs. Cabiniss was most beautifully gowned. Mrs. Childs never danced. She amused herself by admiring her better half. Miss Childs, the daughter of Dr. Childs, could not dance the tango with her father. The dances were refined and admiring. BARNARD'S COMPLEXION CREAM BARNARD'S COMPLEX CREAM AND SOAP Are the best beauty aids, for facial flaws, tan, sunbu pimples. 25c Barnard's plexion Soap free if you this ad and send or bring the People's Drug Store have a 25c jar of Crea 25c cake of Barnard's So PEOPLE'S DRUG 7th and K Streets Bring or send this c FOR R High Class Modern The N 1838 4th Modern Attractive insid designed, best o Janitor service. Beauti l Five and s celain bath closets. Up- First Convenien pleasant stre and outlook appeal to nic SHANNO RENT 713 14th UNDER N Opens Closes S N I The on ple frontin Fishing, b ments, ban Special September. Write fo M CO Op Don't fail of Coleman where in t one of the this city. dates. ly for Pit join his derson. Mrs. Ge day in Wa with her Herndon, Mr. Alex lie Lee wer Mr. Rich on the sick again. Miss Loui Street, Was guest of M ration Day Misses JUDGE TERRELL HONORED (Continued from page I.) meeting of the best men and women of our race. And from this platform it gives me the keenest pleasure to thank the President of the United States and his courageous Attorney General as well as the Senate of the Nation for the tribute they have paid the Negro by giving him representation on the bench at the federal Capital so that the Nations of the world may learn through their diplomatic representatives who are accredited to our government that in some parts of our country the Negro is still recognized as a man and a citizen. And I cannot be too fulsome in praise of the members of the bar, the business men and the press of Washington for their active, persistent and insistent demand for my retention on the bench. Never did any man have more loyal and earnest support than that which came to me from these sources. Such a victory as we have won should be an inspiration to every colored man in our land. Therefore, I urge you to be patient and not to get discouraged and not to give up the fight for better things and higher honors, even though some of us must fail in the struggle. That sweetest of singers, Paul Laurence Dunbar has said in verse: "The man who is strong to fight his fight, And whose will no front can daunt, If truth be truth and right be right, Is the man that the ages want. Tho' he fail and die in grim defeat, Yet he has not fled the strife, And the house of earth will seem more sweet, For the perfume of his life." AFTERMATH OF TERRELL'S RECEPTION Mrs. Terrell was a lady of fashion and enjoyed the dances. She danced all the latest dances. Miss Lola Howard was pleasing and tastily dressed. Mrs. B.K. Bruce quietly looked down from the balcony. She has not lost any of her dignity and refinement. Mrs. Daniel H. Freeman would not venture the new dances. She wore a smile that would not come off. Miss Hattie Shadd had a retiring appearance, but a pleasing look, which is always characteristic of her facial charms. Miss A.B. Chase is a good dancer. Mrs. Jessie Powell was one among the most charming guests present. Her graceful carriage was the center of attention. Some one remarked there are Wyatt archer and Dick Henderson. Alas! The only two left. Dr. Childs was himself again. He has returned to boyhood days. Well, Dr. Cabiniss was a jolly good fellow. Dr. was able to do the tango. Drs. Wheatland and West looked patiently on. Prof. and Mrs. Newman were an enjoyable couple. Prof. Newman is some tango dancer. Prof. Walker is a dignified and graceful dancer. Lieut. Thomas H. Clark is the personification of dignity and grace. Prof. John C. Nalle was present, but said little. Mr. John C. Dancy was not in a dancing humor. Not even the Judge could invigorate him. Will Houston took the dances in. Mrs. Houston doesn't dance. Billie Wilkinson and other crack dancers were not seen upon the floor. Dr. W.L. Board was there. Dr. wore that same smile that will not lose its vigor. Mr. Maurice Clifford knows the tango all right. Everybody was plentifully punched and slightly caked and creamed. The souvenir dancing card was unique. Miss Florence Brooks was very tastily dressed and her dancing was faultless. Miss Ida Jenkins was beautifully gowned. Mrs. Jeannette E. Baltimore ws becomingly gowned. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson looked like Lord Chamberlain. His full dress gave him the appearance of a British statesman. Mr. Moria Saunders was with a queen of beauty, who was an adept in tango dancing. Dr. ad Mrs. A.M. Curtis were quite in evidence. Mrs. Curtis looked like Queen Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Cook were quietly enjoying the dances. Col. Charles R. Douglas was an attractive participant. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lucas took little part in the tango. Mr. and Mrs. F.H. M. Murray do not dance. Mr. Walter J. Singleton was a surprise. He didn't dance the tango. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Watson don't dance. Their church affiliations preclude them. Mrs. John W. Francis, Jr., and Mrs. Edith Mintor, her sister, were among the fascinating guests. Mrs. Mintor has not lost any of her beauty, refinement and sweetness. Mrs. Cabiniss was most beautifully gowned. Mrs. Childs never danced. She amused herself by admiring her better half. Miss Childs, the daughter of Dr. Childs, could not dance the tango with her father. The dances were refined and admiring. 10 The Washington Times PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING (INCLUDING SUNDAYS) BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES COMPANY. THE MUNSEY BUILDING, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Frank A. Munsey Pres. R. H. Titherington, Sec. C. H. Pope, Treas. ONE YEAR (INC SUNDAY), $3.50/ 6 MO., $1.75/3 MO. 90c. Entered at the Postoffice at Washingt0n D.C. as second class mail matter. Washington, D. C., Sunday, January 11, 1914 a storm of protest that has reasonably insured against early repetition. But suppose that the tribunal of last resort had sweepingly sustained the proceedings of the West Virginia drumhead courts-martial? Then we should have a mild suggestion of what has been done in Germany. It is difficult to believe that twentieth century civilization will for long consent to such subversion of civil rights of a great people THE MUNICIPAL COURT. Washington people have too little understanding of the institution, now almost five years old, of the Municipal Court. Established just before Mr. Roosevelt left the Presidency, it was substituted for the old system of justices of the peace, and come to be recognized widely as one of the model "people's courts" of the country. It is difficult to believe that twentieth century civilization will be long for consent to such subversion of civil rights of a great people. THE MUNICIPAL COURT Washington people have too little understanding of the institution, now almost five years old, of the Municipal Court. Established just before Mr. Roosevelt left the Presidency, it was substituted for the old system of justice of the peace, and has come to be recognized widely as one of the model "people's courts" of the country Under the old justice court system a vast business was conducted on the fee plan, and, as has been true in too many other cities, the justices held highly profitable places. Thus the people least able to afford it were made to contribute toward upholstering the political soft places that were highly prized as political rewards. The Municipal Court took over, in general, the jurisdiction of the old justice courts, with exclusive authority in actions involving up to $500. Thus practically all landlord and tenant case and the vast proportion of actions on debt come to this court. The importance of a good system is excellently illustrated in the case of the Municipal Court. The old system was bad. Yet when the new one was created the same men who had been justices were appointed to the bench of the Municipal Court, and under them the most excellent conditions have been attained. These men--there are now five of them--have won the confidence of bar, litigants, and the higher courts. Their courts sustains itself, pays salaries of judges and minor officials, even the rent of the quarters occupied, and then turns back something like $20,000 a year to the revenues of the District. This, of course, is just so much more than the court ought to produce. There is no proper reason why a judicial establishment should earn profits to the public treasury. There is every reason, on the other hand, why a court such as this one should be conducted--and its fees adjusted to the purpose of giving litigants the service they want at the lowest expense. The scale of fees of the Municipal Court might well be reduced enough [?] out the revenue surplus arising from its activity. When the court was created in its present form the scale of fees it was necessarily more or less experimental. It was desirable to place the charges high enough. Experience has proved that they were placed higher than they needed to be. In the light of that experience they ought to be reduced. The five judges of this court, Messrs. Strider, Bundy, Callan, Aukam and Terrell, have performed, in the first five years of its existence, a service that is not well appreciated by the community as it should be. They might without difficulty have made the new system a doubtful success. Instead they have given their best efforts and largest energies to making it a complete and really notable success, and they have done this for salaries so small that sordid motives could not be possibly be involved. At a time when the terms of four members of this bench are expiring and when the whole community seems united in the wish, without regard to politics or faction, that they should be reappointed, the salaries of these places should be increased. To add $1,000 to the annual salary of the judges, and then to reduce the scale of fees so that there would be no "profits" in the establishment, would make the Municipal Court one deserving to be studied and copied by almost any American City. THE NEW HAVEN SETTLEMENT. The New Haven railway follows close in the footsteps of the great Morgan banking house, in recognizing the spirit and purposes of the Administration in dealing with great aggregations of property. It is not necessary now to discuss the question of whether New England will be better served by a dissevered transportation system. The New Haven, the Boston and Maine, and the Boston and Albany, it is stated, are to be sundered. The steamship lines and the trolleys are to be pruned away from the parent system that Mr. Mellen put together at cost of so much pains, effort--and money. Whether a single gigantic transportation system might have been best for New England or not, New England, the country, and the National Administration have agreed that the system of Mr. Mellen organized at the price which it represented, was not the best thing possible. That is about all that is to be said now. Consolidation and centralization have not much to urge in their favor unless they can improve credit, get cheaper capital, give better service, and do the public's business with more safety and efficiency. They apparently could not, in the fashion in which they were applied in New England. Therefore, New England is going back to earlier models, and to try o [?] once more the simpler mechanism by which it [?] hoped that closer and more intensive attention to details on management may be secured. That the Federal Government and the complexity of New Haven interests have been able to agree on[?] an adjustment without litigation is one of the more [?] most [?] gratifying aspects of the whole situation. It shows that men are coming to realize the all-round obligation to the public as a whole. Litigation and uncertainty inevitably mean dissipation, losses and b[?] results. Washington Herald April 2[5] 1914 SENATE CONFIRMS TERRELL Nomination Is Forced Through in Executive Session. The nomination of Robert H. Terrell, colored, for reappointment to the District municipal bench was confirmed by the Senate yesterday Notwithstanding the determined opposition of Senator Vardaman and other Southerners who fought Terrell's nomination solely on the ground of his color, President Wilson's supporters managed to drive Terrell's name through in executive session late yesterday afternoon. Judge Terrell was appointed to the municipal bench of the District by President Roosevelt. With the support of the Bar Association, Attorney General McReynolds recommended him to President Wilson for reappointment as having the best record of any member of the municipal bench. The only opposition to him from any source has been on the score of his color. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1921. ENLARGED MUNICIPAL COURT TO AID SUPREME JUDICIARY New Scope, Effective June 1, Expected to Relieve Docket of Higher Body From More Than 1,100 Cases. The recent legislation enlarging to $1,000 the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia will become effective June 1. Under the new law that tribunal will have exclusive jurisdiction over all cases in which debts nor exceeding $1,000 are sought to be collected and of all action for the recovery of damages not to exceed $1,000 for personal injury, assault, assault and battery, slander, libel, malicious prosecution and breach of promise to marry. At this time the Municipal Court is limited to cases involving amounts up to $500 and the District Supreme Court has concurrent jurisdiction over cases of $100 and up. Defendants seeking delay may now remove their cases before trial to the District Supreme Court by certiorari. The concurrent jurisdiction of the Supreme Court as well as the right to transfer cases to that tribunal by centiorari are abolished by the new law. In Force Six Years. Decided innovations are made by the new enactment which makes the Municipal Court a court of record and provided that it shall have a seal, furnished a right of trial by jury where the amount involved exceeds $20 and declares its judgements final except where the Court of Appeals shall allow a writ of error to review any such judgment. All judgments shall remain in force for six years and no longer unless docketed in the District Supreme Court, Judgments of the Municipal Court shall not become liens on real estate unless docketed in the District Supreme Court. The jurors provided by the new law are to be drawn by the jury commission, which provides jurors for the various branches of the District Supreme Court, and they shall receive the same compensation of $3 per day for their services, Juries may be available throughout the calendar year in the Municipal Court, since the law provides that a special term for jury service may begin on the first Tuesday of August and terminate on the first Tuesday of October. The jury commission is to draw thirty-six names of prospective jurors at least ten days before the beginning of each term of the Municipal Court and may draw additional names to fill the panel when required. Appeals Are Abolished. All appeals to the District Supreme court from the Municipal Court are abolished under the new law. No appeal appeal as a matter of right is provided, but any person aggrieved by any final judgement of the Municipal Court may petition directly to the Court of Appeals for the allowance of a writ of error within ten days after the rendition of the judgment. Any justice of the Appellate Court may grant the writ. In addition to the new proceedings involving $1,000 or less, the Municipal Court shall have jurisdiction so such cases now pending in the District Supreme Court involving such sums or of the class of cases of which the Municipal Court would have jurisdiction under the new law. There are now about 1,200 of such cases now pending in the District Supreme Court, but it is expected no steps will be taken to transfer this large batch of cases until after a conference between the justices of the Supreme Court and the judges of the Municipal Court. Remains "The Poor Man's Court." "The Municipal Court will remain the "poor man's court, despite the additional authority and volume of business given it by the new law," said Judge George C. Aukam today. No formal pleadings will be required in cases involving less than $500, but no decision has been reached as to just what pleadings shall be filed in the cases of larger amount. The cost of filing in small cases will remain at $1.60, except where a trial is demanded, "when the cost does not exceed $2.10." With his associates, Judges Kimball, Mattingly and Terrell, Judge Aukam will hold a conference shortly and a decision is expected as to the rules of procedure, practice and pleading under the enlarged jurisdiction. At this conference fees and costs for cases involving more than $500 will be formulated, including the price to be charged when a jury trial is demanded. When the new arrangement in the Municipal Court is well started it is expected that the congestion which has marked litigation in the District for so many years will be relieved in a great measure. With its docket freed from more than 1,100 cases, and with the immense volume of appeals and certioraris abolished, the District Supreme Court is expected to make inroads into its congested calendar, and lawyers and litigants may hope to have a case docketed and disposed of in short order instead of having to wait two or more years for a trial, while witnesses died or became scattered and justice was often defeated. Gobbler Growing Fat For the President's Thanksgiving Dinner On a large plantation away down in Mississippi there is a proud, handsome young gobbler Turkey who has [?] From among fattening [?] NEW REPRESENTATION HEAR [?] TO BE ASKED OF [?] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C> TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1921 ?M US REFUTED S. Kann Sons Co. Open 9:15 A.M. S. Kann S ? PENNA. AVE AT 8 TH. ST. 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Another Sale of the same fine kinds th? with such a rush last ? —Roses that will grow and bloom for you this ? ment, and for those who were unable to get here THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C. MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921 U.S. BARELY ESCAPED WAR IN 1916 DANIELS DECLARES So Probable Did a Break With Germany Appear After Sussex Sinking That Navy Was Mobilized. BY JOSEPH DANIELS, Former Secretary of the Navy. ARTICLE V. The Navy prepared for action in April, 1916, for war seemed almost imminent then as it did the next year. When President Wilson sent his Sussex note to Germany, declaring that relations would be broken if ruthless submarine warfare was not stopped, we made all plans to mobilize the fleet, Nothing could show more clearly the critical situation than the steps the Navy took to meet it. My mobilization order of April 27, 1916, shows that twenty-nine of thirty-two battleships were ready for immediate action, and that one of the remaining three would be ready in ? eek's time. ?ing table for the de- ?t out of for- ? were emergency. As the first line of defense it must not be caught napping Mobilization is the next step to actual hostilities, and is justifiable only when conditions are extremely threatening. That was the case in the spring of 1916. As it happened, Germany yielded. She replied to our ultimatum with a declaration that her government was "prepared to do its utmost to confine the operations of war for te rest of its duration to the fighting forces of the belligerents." She further promised that merchant vessels should no longer be sunk without warning or Note the phrase "for the rest of its duration." This made the pledge binding until the war ended. Within eight months Germany was laying her plans to shatter the solemn promise, and within nine she had repudiated it. For the time, however, it averted the rupture between the two countries, and postponed for nearly a year what many of us by ... without saving human lives, except in cases where they attempted to escape or to offer resistance. Only Gorilla in U. S. Dies of Pneumonia When Doctors Fail By the Associated Press. New York, April 18.-"John Daniel,' the only gorilla in captivity in the United States, died yesterday of pneumonia in his private room at Madison Square Garden, where he was appearing with a circus. Physicians and medical men did all within their power to save the animal's life, giving him hot drinks, applying hot cloths and administering quinine, but to no avail. A peculiarity of the climate in America is said to prohibit gorillas from living here for any length of time. One of the animals died recently at the Bronx Zoo of the same malady. The body will be presented to the American Museum of Natural History. Maj. Cronkhite Murder is Denied By Suspect Department of Justice Agents Flayed for Arrest of Former Army Captain. New York, April 18-Denial that he was in any way connected with the shooting and killing of Maj. Alexander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis, Tacoma, two and a half years ago, was made here by Robert Rosenbluth, formerly a captain in the Army Engineer corps. Rosenbluth, who was arrested here on a charge of murder and released later on $25,000 bail, was accused in an alleged confession made by Sergt. Roland p. Pothier at Tacoma of having ordered him to shoot the major, promising him protection if her performed the deed. Rosenbluth, who is at the home of his attorney, here, declared Maj. Cronkhite was "the best liked man in the outfit" and asserted that the Department of Justice agents had blundered in their investigation of the case. "It was to satisfy a private vengeance" he said, "and to hang onto their jobs that I was accused of the murder." The idea of a premeditated conspiracy to shoot Maj. Cronkhite, Rosenbluth declared,was impossible, as the major was in the hospital four days previous to the shooting and no one knew he was to be with the skeleton regiment on the day of their hike. Jonah J. Goldstein, Rosenbluth's attorney, flayed the Department of Justice, saying "they are looking for some one to put the blame on and don't care who it is. Rosenbluth has nothing to fear, as he is absolutely innocent and all his old buddies of the service know it." Plans to Include all. Bills Before Congress for Physical Education of Children Among the bills introduced in the new Congress is one proposing federal co-operation with the states in the extension of physical education to reach all children between the ages of six and eighteen. The bill was introduced by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Representative S. D. Fess of Ohio> The new bill differs from the Fess- Capper bill of the last Congress in that physical examination of medical treatment is not required where parents object, and a clause also has been inserted guarding against discrimination for or against any school of practitioners. The bill authorizes an appropriation of $10,000,000 to be distributed to the states for the payment of one-half the cost of training and employing teachers of physical education, including health supervisors and school nurses. During the first year or two, physical educators say, it is probable only a part of this sum will be used by the states. Franklin Statue Honored on Trip Thousands Acclaim Monument Over Route "Poor Richard" Traversed. By the Associated Press Philadelphia, PA. April 18.- The statue of Benjamin Franklin, which is being taken from Baltimore to Waterbury, Conn., over the same route traversed by "Poor Richard" when he came to Philadelphia in 1723, was taken by barge today to Burlington, N. J. where a big celebration has been planned. State and military authorities from Camp Dix will take part in the exercises. From the wharf to city hall the statue will pass through a lane of school children. It was at Burlington that Franklin printed the colonial money of the province in 1726. Jusserand Pays Tribute. French Ambassador Stresses Liberty at Franklin's Tomb Philadelphia, PA., April 18.- Should the liberty or freedom of the United States ever be threatened, France would be the first to offer aid, Jules Jusserand. French ambassador, declares here in an address at the tomb of Benjamin Franklin. "The same feeling that France had for the colonies at the time of the revolution," he said, 'has but increased as a result of the assistance rendered France during the late war. Like Lafayette at Metz, our hearts would enlist again for freedom were you ever to need us, for we have a love of independence that I doubt not will last forever." The ambassador was the principal speaker at exercises in commemoration of the 131st anniversary of the death of Franklin, which were held in connection with the journey of "Poor Richard's" statue from Baltimore to its final resting place at Waterbury, Conn. The sculptor, Paul W. Bartlett, also made a brief address. Calls Off Its Meeting. Central Citizens to Join With Others for Union Educational Night Thomas J. Donovan, president of the Central Citizens' Association, has called off the regular meeting of the association scheduled for tonight in favor of a joint educational meeting to be held next Monday night in Trinity Community House, 3d and C streets. Six speakers will make short addresses at that time on little understood matters relating to Washington. Those who will speak and the topics they will discuss follow: Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, "Washington's Housing problems"; Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, "Mothers' Relations to the Schools"; Miss Cecil B. Norton, "Washington's Community Centers"' Charles J. Columbus, "Washington's Industrial Interests"; J. Lynn Yeagle, "Know Your Washington", and Daniel A. Edwards, 'Conflicts of Authority in Washington. Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, widow of the famous Confederate general,says the women of Georgia will carry their state into the republican column. Mrs. Longstreet has had considerable practical experience in politics. She was an ardent admirer of President Roosevelt, who appointed her postmistress of Gainesville, a position which she forfeited later by following Col. Roosevelt into the bull moose party. House Wiring 6 Rooms, $100 Carroll P. Carpenter The idea of a premeditated conspiracy to shoot Maj. Cronkhite, Rosenbluth declared, was impossible, as the major was in the hospital four days previous to the shooting and no one knew he was to be with the skeleton regiment on the day of their hike. Jonah J. Goldstein, Rosenbluth's attorney, flayed the Department of Justice, saying "they are looking for some one to put the blame on and don't care who it is. Rosenbluth has nothing to fear, as he is absolutely innocent and all of his old buddies of the service know it." PLANS TO INCLUDE ALL. Bills Before Congress for Physical Education of Children. Among the bills introduced in the new Congress is one of the proposing federal co-operation with the states in the extension of physical education to reach all children between ages of six and eighteen. The bill was introduced by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Representative S. D. Fess of Ohio. The new bill differs from the Fess-Capper bill of th last Congress in that physical examination or medical treatment is not required where parents object, and a clause also has been inserted guarding against discrimination for or against any school of practitioners. The bill authorizes an appropriation of $10,000,000 to be distributed to the states for the payment of one-half the cost of training and employing teachers of physical education, including health supervisors and school nurses. During the first year or two, physical educators say, it is probable only a part of this sum will be used by the states. CALLS OFF ITS MEETING. Central Citizens to Join With Others for Union Educational Night Thomas J. Donavan, president of the Central Citizens' Association, has called off the regular meeting of the association scheduled for tonight in favor of a joint educational meeting to be held next Monday night in Trinity Community House, 3d and C streets. Six s[eakers will make short addresses at that time on little understood matters relating to Washington. Those who will speak and the topics they will discuss follow" Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, "Washington's Housing Problems"; Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, "Mothers' Relations to the Schools"; Miss Cecil B. Norton. "Washington's Community Centers"; Charles J. Columbus, "Washington's Industrial Interests"; J. Lynn Yeagle. "Know Your Washington", and Daniel A. Edwards, "Conflicts of Authority in Washington." Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, widow of the famous COnfederate general, says the women of Georgia will carry their state into the republican column. Mrs. Longstreet has had considerable practical experience in politics. She was an ardent admirer of President Roosevelt, who appointed her postmistress of Gainesville. a position which she forfeited later by following Col. Roosevelt into the bull moose party. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C., MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1921. LOCAL APPOINTEES BEFORE PRESIDENT Justice Gould Confers With Mr. Harding Regarding Federal Positions. It is known that President Harding is giving much thought to local appointments and that he will reach a decision in one or two of he more important federal positions in the District of Columbia within the next few days. He conferred today with Justice Ashley M. Gould of the District Supreme Court regarding the appointment of a United States marshal. He sent for Judge Gould knowing that the latter, because of his long service on the bench and his residence in this city, was more or less familiar with the various persons who have been suggested for appointment to the places. It is also intimated that the President discussed with the judge the general political situation in the District of Columbia, and asked a number of questions regarding the various republican organizations in Washington and about the personnel of the leaders of each. Judge Gould is understood to be supporting Peyton Gordon, one of the aspirants for the District attorneyship, for whom he has what is looked upon as a natural interest because of their long acquaintance. He also is familiar with several of the other aspirants and has a high regard for each, according to his own statement. Among the latter are Robert I. Miller, president of the Harding and Coolidge League No. 1, and S. McComas Hawken and James M. Proctor. The three men who are known to be under serious consideration for marshal are Edgar C. Synder, newspaper correspondent; Ralph W. Lee, prominent business man, and Aulick Palmer, who previously was marshal for several terms. Havre de Grace Entries. First read: maiden two-year-old fillies; four furlongs - bFarewell Taps, 114; Dunce Cap, 114; Diadema 114; Toddle, 114: Theo, 114; Blue Teal, 114; Nancy F., 114; Reliability 114; a The Vengeance, 114; aQuick Run, 114; Ogarite 114; Miriam Cooper, 114; bLast Effort, 114; Orris, 114; Maryland Belle, 114. aPellican stable; b Farewell Taps, and Last Effort, Brown entry. Second race: claiming; three-year-olds and up; six furlongs - Trusty 120; Beckna, 112: Crumpsall, 112, Equator, 110; Little Maudie, 110; Mormon, 112; Kirah, 112, Langhorn 111, Jean Bullant, 110; Fickle Fancy, 106; Highland Lad, 112, Ettahe, 112; Burgoyne, 110; E. Caruso, 110'; Watt, 107. Also eligible, Tarascon, 115; Tout Or, 98, North Shore, 96, Toadstool, 107; Midian, 110. Third Race: maiden; three-year-olds; five and one-half furlongs - aRegistrar, 116; Golden Flint, 116; Streamer, 116; Esquire, 116; Marie M., 111; Baywood, 116; Rep. 116; High Value, 116; Hayrrack, 111; Ferngrass, 111; Wild Heather, 116; Trader, 116; By Joe, 116; Princess Pandora, 116; bTheodosia, 111. Also eligible, Navajoe, 116, aTiarco, 111; bGem, 111. aRoss entry; bCosden entry. Fourth race: claiming: three-year-olds; six furlongs - Plum Blossom, 111; Black Top, 110; Chevalier, 106; Social Star, 106; Tenite, 110; Ross R., 111; Miss Rankin, 109, Explosive, 105; Wraith, 106, Sacajawea, 98; Tidings, 111; Actress, 107; Perhaps 110, Lucy Kate, 103. Fifth race, the Delaware handicap, three-year-olds and up, one mile - Boniface, 126; Wildair, 114; Sennings Park, 116, Sandy Beal, 116; Paul Jones, 115; My Dear, 104. Sixth race, the Pennsylvania pure; for four-year-olds and up, one mile and seventy yards - Biff Bang 112, the Archer, 102, Jock Scot, 102, Sagamore 97; Frogtown, 102, Shoal, 97. Seventh race, claiming, four-year-olds and up; one mile and one-sixteenth-Darnley, 116; Armistice 112; Bally Bell, 108; American Boy, 112, Padue, 104; Mormon Elder, 114; Court Fool 112; Attorney Muir, 108; Hello Pardner, 110; P.G. King, 103; Hendrie, 112; Lady Emmeline, 109; Al Pierce, 108; Risterer, 107; Anna Gallup, 98. Also eligible, Capt. Hodge, 101. Apprentice allowance claimed. Cloudy, track fast. DEVOTEES OF SWIMMIN' GREETED BY PRESIDENT Johnny Wackerman, the boy who wrote a letter to President Harding last week, inspired an answer in which the latter indulged in boyhood recollection of swimming holes back in Ohio, and thirty other boys and girls, all members of the Trinity Community House Club, were cordially greeted by President Harding today when they called to urge his support in the movement to obtain funds for a permanent swimming pool at the community house. The President (?) (?) straints upon government the rights of the governed." The Hirsh-Block controversy had its inception in the Municipal Court January 6, 1920, when Louis Hirsh began landlord and tenant proceedings against Julius Block to secure possession of premises at 919 F street northwest, the lease of which had expired January 1. That court, under the Ball act, refused possession to the owner, and Mr. Hirsh noted an appeal to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, where the case was docketed January 28, 1920. In order to expedite the case to the Court of Appeals counsel for the owner consented to a judgment in favor of the tenant and upholding the validity of the Ball rent law. An appeal to the Court of Appeals was taken and a decision rendered by the appellate tribunal June 2, 1920, declaring the law unconstitutional and remanding the case to the lower court. This decision was rendered by Justice Van Orsdel, with Justice Robb concurring? Chief Justice Smyth filed a dissenting opinion. Sought Short Cut. Counsel for the tenant sought a short cut to the United States Supreme Court by asking for a certiorari from that decision of the Court of Appeals, but the highest court denied the request, pointing out that the decision sought to be reviewed was not final. The case then went back to the District Supreme Court, where judgment was entered in favor of the landlord in accordance with the majority opinion of the Court of Appeals. From this decision Mr. Block, the tenant, appealed, but the Court of Appeals by the same divided court stood by its former ruling that the law is invalid. Mr. Block then noted the appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which was decided today. Attorney William G. Johnson represented the owner, while Attorneys Jesse C. Adkins and Julius I. Peyser appeared for the tenant. In the United States Supreme Court the Department of Justice took part in the case through Assistant United States Attorney General Henry H. Glassie. LANDLORDS LIABLE TO FINES. Thousands of Dollars Involved in Ignored Rent Board Rulings. Washington landlords who have ignored the decisions of the District rent commission will be liable to fines aggregating, it is estimated, thousands of dollars, in addition to being required to pay over to the commission double the amount of rent in excess of rentals fixed by that body, according to provisions of the Ball act. In several instances of large apartment houses, where a score or more of tenants have been ejected in the face of the rent board's contrary determination, the owners will be subject to fines of $1,000 for each tenant so ejected, it is decreed in the act. Harry L. Rust, president of the Washington real estate board, declared that virtually all building of rental buildings in Washington is bound to cease immediately. An executive committee meeting of the board has been called and the various phases of the ruling and their effect on the real estate business here will be discussed. Sections 112 and 116 of the Ball act contain the provisions relating to refunded rents and fines. They follow: Sec. 112. If the owner of any rental property, apartment, or hotel collects any rent or charge therefor in excess of the amount fixed in a determination of the commission made and in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions of this title, he shall be liable for and the commission is hereby authorized and directed to commence an action in the Municipal Court in the District of Columbia to recover double the amount of such excess, together with the costs of the proceeding, which shall include an attorney's fee of $50, to be taxed as part of the costs. Out of any sums received on account of such recovery the commission shall pay over to the tenant the amount of the excess so paid by him and the balance shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Provided, That if the commission finds that such excess was paid by the tenant voluntarily and with knowledge of the commission's determination, the whole amount of such recovery shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Sec. 116. Any person who with intent to avoid the provisions of this title enters into any agreement or arrangement for the payment of any bonus or other consideration in connection with any lease or other contract for the use or occupancy of any rental property, hotel or apartment, or who participates in any fictitious sale or other device or arrangement the purpose of which is to grant or obtain the use or occupancy of any rental property, hotel or apartment without subjecting such use or occupancy to the provisions of this title or to the jurisdiction of the commission shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment for not exceeding one year or by both. The rent act automatically expires October 22 next. In view of the court's ruling, however, it is regarded likely that Congress will be asked to extend the life of the commission. AUTHOR OF BILL PLEASED. Senator Ball Says Act Should Continue in Force. Senator Ball of Delaware, when informed that the Supreme Court had upheld the rent act, said: "Of course this is a great satisfaction to all those people who have given rent commissions in Washington serious thought. Had it been declared unconstitutional by sustaining the decision of the lower court, it is very difficult to forecast what would have been the living conditions in our capital city. For the proper protection of both the landlord and tenant, and to encourage the building necessary for proper housing of government employees, this act may require some minor amendments. It certainly will be necessary by a legislative act to extend its life. Since the general principle of public hostelries can be legally controlled as to proper rates, there should be no trouble in the future in fixing rentals that would be reasonable both for tenants and landlords." Commissioner Oyster Gratified. District Commissioner James F. Oyster, who served for a number of months as a member of the District rent commission, expressed gratification when he learned today of the decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding the Ball rent act. "I am delighted," the Commissioner stated, "and my only regret is that I am not still on the job with the rent commission. I supported the rent law religiously, and I believe its effect on the city has been good." Capt. Oyster said he believed that persons who have failed to recognize the decisions of the rent commission should be punished. MUDDIMAN aThe Vengeance, 114; aQuick Run, 114; Ogarite, 114; Miriam Cooper, 114; bLast Effort, 114; Orris, 114; Maryland Belle, 114. aPelican stable; bFarewell Taps, and Last Effort, Brown entry. Second race, claiming; three-year-olds and up; six furlongs - Trusty, 120; Beckna, 112; Crumpsall, 112; Equator, 110; *Little Maudie, 110; Mormon, 112; *Kirah, 112; *Langhorn, 111; Jean Bullant, 110; Fickle Fancy, 106; Highland Lad, 112; Ettahe, 112; Burgoyne, 110; E. Caruso, 110; Watt, 107. Also eligible, *Tarascon, 115; Tout Or, 98; North Shore, 96; Toadstool, 107; Midian, 110; Third race; maiden; three-year-olds; five and one-half furlongs - aRegistrar, 116; Golden Flint, 116; Streamer, 116; Esquire, 116; Marie M., 111; Baywood, 116; Rep, 116; High Value, 116; Hayrack, 111; Ferngrass, 111; Wild Heather, 116; Trader, 116; By Joe, 116; Princess Pandora, 116; bTheodosia, 111. Also eligible, Navajoe, 116; aTiarco, 111; bGem, 111. aRoss entry; bCosden entry. Fourth race, claiming; three-year-olds; six furlongs - Plum Blossom, 111; Black Top, 110; Chevalier, 106; *Social Star, 106; Tenite, 110; Ross R., 111; Miss Rankin, 109; Explosive, 105; *Wraith, 106; *Sacajawea, 98; Tidings, 111; Actress, 107; *Perhaps, 110; *Lucy Kate, 103. Fifth race, the Delaware handicap, three-year-olds and up, one mile - Boniface, 126; Wildair, 114; Sennings Park, 116, Sandy Beal, 116; Paul Jones, 115; My Dear, 104. Sixth race, the Pennsylvania pure; for four-year-olds and up, one mile and seventy yards - Biff Bang, 112, the Archer, 102; Jock Scot, 102; Sagamore, 97; Frogtown, 102; Shoal, 97. Seventh race, claiming; four-year-olds and up; one mile and one-sixteenth - Darnley, 116; Armistice 112; Bally Bell, 108; *American Boy, 112; *Pardue, 104; Mormon Elder, 114; Court Fool, 112; Attorney Muir, 108; *Hello, Pardner, 110; *P. G. King, 103; Hendrie, 112; Lady Emmeline, 109; Al Pierce, 108; *Risterer, 107; *Anna Gallup, 98. Also eligible, *Capt. Hodge, 101. *Apprentice allowance claimed. Cloudy; track fast. DEVOTEES OF SWIMMIN' GREETED BY PRESIDENT Johnny Wackerman, the boy who wrote a letter to President Harding last week, inspired an answer in which the latter indulged in boyhood recollection of swimming holes back in Ohio, and thirty other boys and girls, all members of the Trinity Community House Club, were cordially greeted by President Harding today when they called to urge his support in the movement to obtain funds for a permanent swimming pool at the community house. The President warmly greeted Johnny and his friends, and thanked him for the letter which gave him so much happiness. Johnny in turn thanked the President for his answer. The children were accompanied by Mrs. James Wadsworth, Jr., wife of Senator Wadsworth of New York, who is chairman of the committee arranging for the Daffodil ball to be given at the New Willard Hotel next Thursday night for the benefit of this swimming pool fund; Rev. and Mrs. David R. Covell, the former being pastor of Trinity Church; Mrs. G. T. Rude and Miss Bessie Christian. The President, in answer to an invitation to attend the ball, said if his engagements permitted he surely would drop in and do all he could to help the cause along. In the presence of more than fifty horseshoers today President Harding was presented with two pairs of specially designed horseshoes, each containing his name. The presentation was made by Brig. Gen. H. M. Lord, director of finance, U. S. A., and honorary president of the Horseshoe Pitchers' Association of Washington. The presentation was made in the name of the National Horseshoe Throwers' Association of America. One pair of the shoes was nickel plated and the other copper plated. They are of regulation size and weigh two and one-quarter pounds. RENT LAW OF DISTRICT SUSTAINED IN DECISION BY HIGHEST U. S. COURT (Continued from First Page.) after the expiration of his term, against the demand of his landlord and in direct opposition to the covenants of the lease so long as he pays the rent and performs the conditions as fixed by the lease or as modified by a commission created by the statute. This is contrary to every conception of leases that the world has ever entertained, and of the reciprocal rights and obligations of lessor and lessee." Justice McKenna further down said: "It is asserted that the statute has been made necessary by the conditions resulting from the 'imperial German war.' The thought instantly comes that the country has had other wars with resulting embarrassment, yet they did not induce the relaxation of constitutional requirements nor the exercise of arbitrary power. Constitutional restraints were increased, not diminished. However, it may be admitted that the conditions presented a problem and induced an appeal for government remedy. "But we must bear in mind that the Constitution is, as we have shown, a restraint upon government, purposely provided and declared upon consideration of all the consequences of what it prohibits and permits, making the re- determination, the owners will be subject to fines of $1,000 for each tenant so ejected, it is decreed in the act. Harry L. Rust, president of the Washington real estate board, declared that virtually all building of rental buildings in Washington is bound to cease immediately. An executive committee meeting of the board has been called and the various phases of the ruling and their effect on the real estate business here will be discussed. Sections 112 and 116 of the Ball act contain the provisions relating to refunded rents and fines. They follow: Sec. 112. If the owner of any rental property, apartment, or hotel collects any rent or charge therefor in excess of the amount fixed in a determination of the commission made and in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions of this title, he shall be liable for and the commission is hereby authorized and directed to commence an action in the Municipal Court in the District of Columbia to recover double the amount of such excess, together with the costs of the proceeding, which shall include an attorney's fee of $50, to be taxed as part of the costs. Out of any sums received on account of such recovery the commission shall pay over to the tenant the amount of the excess so paid by him and the balance shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia: Provided. That if the commission finds that such excess was paid by the tenant voluntarily and with knowledge of the commission's determination, the whole amount of such re- WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight and Wednesday, with moderate southwest winds. FULL REPORT ON PAGE SIXTEEN. The Evening Sta No. 19,501. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1914— TWENTY PAGES. DISTRICT JUDGES ARE DECIDED UPON Doyle, Strasburger and Terrell Picked for Municipal Bench by McReynolds. PRESIDENT AND ADVISERS CONFER OVER SELECTIONS Nominations Expected to Go to Senate Tomorrow—Colored Man Only One to Be Reappointed. President Wilson will probably send to the Senate tomorrow the nominations of Michael M. Doyle, Milton Strasburger and Robert H. Terrell to be judges of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, thereby filling all the vacancies that at present exist on the court. The recommendations for these nominations reached the White House this morning and were followed by the Attorney General himself, who had a conference with the President prior to the regular cabinet meeting. It is presumed that the Attorney General informed the President as to the names of the three men selected. If these recommendations are followed only one judge of the court will have been reappointed, Robert H. Terrell, the only colored man on the bench. Judges Bundy, Callan and Strider will be displaced by Messrs. Doyle and Strasburger, and E. C. Kimball, who was nominated a few days ago. Names Long Considered. The recommendations to the President have been made after long consideration by the Department of Justice. In fact, there has been some trouble at the department over the selections. Judge Terrell is the only man who was originally agreed upon by the Attorney General. Two or three other lawyers have been pretty close to being named. Frederick S. Tyler was practically agreed upon at one time, but for some reason there was a switch in his case and other names were taken up. An interesting feature of the nominations is whether Senator Vardaman will begin his threatened strike against confirming any colored man nominated for federal office. Judge Terrell has admittedly made an excellent judge, and there has been no complaint against him on any score. If Senator Vardaman is successful in holding up or preventing con mation of Judge Terrell's nomination ll be wholly on racial grounds, it is today. nt Wilson, if he makes the nom- is expected, will do so with a the attitude of Senator. Justice has had and sug- officials Mr. Strasburger was not a candidate for the positon, and was surprised when told by a Star reporter that the Attorney General had recommended him to the President. Career of Terrell. Mr. Terrell has served for sixteen years as a justice of the peace and a judge in the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia. His nomination was urged R. H. TERRELL. upon former President Roosevelt by Booker T. Washington during Roosevelt's first term, and the nomination was directly due to the arguments of the noted southern negro educator. Judge Terrell graduated from Groton School, Groton, Mass., and later completed his studies at Harvard law school, graduating with honors. He had completed a term as principal of the colored schools of Washington before being nominated by President Roosevelt for a municipal judgeship. He is forty-six years old. His home is at 326 T street northwest. FRANK'S CONVICTION AS SLAYER UPHELD Outcome of the Mary Phagan Murder Trial Affirmed by Georgia Supreme Court. DATE SOON WILL BE SET FOR PRISONER'S DEATH Records in sational KNIGHTS ARE READY FOR THEIR JUBILEE High Pythians in Capital to Participate in the Celebration. SUPREME LODGE OFFICERS TO BE HONOR GUESTS Reception Scheduled Tomorrow Night by World's Oldest Two Pythian Lodges. Everything is announced in readiness for the celebration of their golden jubilee by the Knights of Pythias in this city. The high officials of the order who arrived yesterday afternoon and today include Supreme Chancellor Thomas J. Carling of Macon, Ga.; Supreme Vice Chancellor Brig S. Young of Ada, Ohio; Maj. Gen. Arthur J. Stobbart, commanding the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias, of St. Paul, Minn.; Union B. Hunt, president of the insurance branch of the order, of Indianapolis, Ind., and a host of prominent officers of lower rank and members of the order. The Supreme Lodge officers are all expected to be present to attend the meeting of the Supreme Council, which has been called by Supreme Chancellor Carling for tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the New Willard Hotel. Exercises intimately connected with the jubilee celebration will begin tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the lodge room of Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 5, with a reception by Franklin Lodge, No. 2, and Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 5, to the Supreme Lodge officers. These two are t oldest Pythian lodges in the world. P Supreme Chancellor Edward Dunn preside at this function. He is the o continuous member of the order in world. Reception by Pythian Sist Later in the evening, at ab o'clock, Rathbone Temple, No. Friendship Temple, No. 9, Pythia will hold a reception in the a of Pythian Temple for the Supreme ple and the Grand Temples o Sistors, which will be follow entertainment and dance. M D. Bynum, supreme represe that order, will deliver the welcome and responses will be Mrs. Ida M. Johnson of Ce Colo., supreme chief of the P ters, and Mrs. Anna Perry, of the order in Virginia and of Columbia, of Fredericksbu Tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock ceremonial session and class will be conducted by Ascal of the Dramatic Old orassan, at Conventio by Be[?] Hadad Temple [*$$$ IN HO*] THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1914 OLD WAVE'S BACK DUE TO BE BROKEN r Weather is Headed ay From the Canadian Northwest. NOW PROBLEM VED GRADUALLY Claim Regu- iation Is orsal ade w CAUGHT IN ICE - ABANDONED BY CREW. UNITED STATES NAVAL TUG POTOMAC. considerable the severity in after and the ny of wo TO BRING MEN BACK M NORRIS POINT Looking doned misrepresentation that the Washington Building Trades Council was soliciting advertisements, representatives of the council decided today to turn the matter over to the police. H. S. Hollohan, presi- dent of the council, announced today that his organization is not seeking donations for any advertisements of any kind. HOUSE MACE FORGOTTEN. Symbol of Authority Missing From Place, and Scurrying Follows. "Who's got the mace?" rang out in the House today when Wallace Bassford, pri- vate secretary to Speaker Clark, standing in the gallery, discovered the absence of the sergeant-at-arms' historic symbol of authority that must rest on a marble pedestal next to the Speaker's rostrum whenever the House is in session. For he first time in the memory of man the ce had been forgotten for the moment the House had no real authority to rce orders. There was a scurrying to e mace, and it was quickly brought floor. ace is one of the oldest of the traditions and too sacred an in- of authority to display even House is acting "in committee ole." The rule requiring the t-arms to bear the mace while order, from which has grown e of keeping it in position next aker's desk, was adopted in an attempt to enforce order would create grave parliament- s. S IN ALBANY FIRE issing and Five Injured ort to Save Business Block. VETERAN FIREMEN EULOGIZE SULLIVAN Enthusiastically Indorse His Long Record of Service in the Department. ACCUSED FIRE FIGHTER HELD "BEST IN WORLD" Both Sides Manifest Desire to Ex- pedite Trial - Little New Evi- dence is Developed. Eulogistic characterizations of Deputy Chief Sullivan as a fire fighter marked the trial of the veteran fireman today on charges of inefficiency and neglect of duty preferred by the District Commis- sioners. Fifteen members of the fire department, ranging in rank from privates to deputy chiefs, took the stand in behalf of the defendant and enthusiastically indorsed his long record of service in the depart- ment. Little new evidence was developed by the testimony and both sides manifested a desire to proceed with the trial as rapidly as possible from this point on. There is a possibility that the defense may rest its case late today. James M. Burns, superintendent of Mount Olivet cemetery, took the stand shortly after the beginning of the after- noon session. He testified that Charles B. Proctor, third battalion chief, came to him one day soon after Christmas and asked the witness if, in the event there should be a vacancy in the position of chief engineer would he sign a petition indorsing Proctor for the place. Many Witnesses Examined. Witnesses followed each other in rapid succession. Attorneys Darr and O'Don- oghue alternated in examining them. Questions repeatedly asked were: "Do you know of any rule requiring re- ports to be made by a subordinate offi- cer to the chief engineer upon his ar- rival at a fire?" "Is it inefficiency on the part of fire department officials to order men into buildings to fight fires when no lives are at stake?" "What is your opinion of Deputy Chief Sullivan as a firefighter?" Practically without exception negative answers were given to the first two ques- tions. The witnesses equally were a unit in praise of Sullivan's ability as a fireman. One of them, Capt. Patrick J. Hollohan, of No. 2 engine, said that Sullivan is to the fire department what Gen. Grant was to the Union army. Capt. Hollohan was the first witness called. When asked if he had ever known Sullivan to be inefficient in his duties, Hollohan said that if a man had suggested such a thing he would have thought him crazy. Corporation Counsel Syme cross-exam- ined the witness and endeavored to ob- tain from him information as to the customs of the department toward safe- guarding men who had been ordered into a burning building and are in a position where they are unable to see danger above or about them. No Way to Tell Location. After insistent questioning by the cor- poration counsel as to how the chief en- gineer, when arriving at a fire after the FOUND DEAD IN SNOWDRIFT. Editor Succumbs as He Nears Home at Garden City, L. I. GARDEN CITY, L. I., February 17. - Edward N. Townsend, editor of the Nas- sau county Republican, was found dead in a snowdrift today in front of his home here. He had apparently become exhausted while struggling through the snowdrift last night and had fallen just as he reached his fate. His wife remained up all night anxiously awaiting his return, but it was not until today that he was found, almost buried by snow, frozen to death. Mr. Townsend was fifty-six years old and weighed nearly 300 pounds. Members of his family think that his heart gave out after his battle with the snow. He was socially prominent. LECTURER TO DISCUSS INTERNATIONAL PEACE Norman Angell to Deliver Address This Evening at Church of the Covenant. NORMAN ANGELL. International peace is be the topic of a lecture by Norman Angell at the Church of the Covenant at 8 o'clock this evening. The lecture, which is to be Mr. Angell's only public address in Washing- ton, is to be given under the auspices of the Washington Peace Society. Mr. Angell, whose full name is Ralph Norman Angell Lane, is widely known as an author, editor and publicist, and an ardent advocate of permanent peace among the nations. His visit to Wash- ington is made in the course of a tour of the United States, during which he is to deliver addresses in all the principal cities. The tour is under the auspices of the American Society for International Conciliation, with which are co-operating the numerous branches of the American Peace Society. Although English by nativity, Mr. Angell has spent much of his life in the western part of the United States. F several years he has been engaged newspaper work in Paris, first respondent for a number of newspapers and later, for editor of the Daily 1905 he has been ma Paris Daily WEATHER. Fair and conrinued cold tonight, with heavy frost; lowest temperature tonight near freezing; tomorrow fair. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today. Highest, 78, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 40 at 9 a.m. today. Full report in page 7. Closing New York Stocks, Page 20. No. 28,113 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington D.C. RENT LAW OF DISTRICT SUSTAINED IN DECISION BY HIGHEST U.S. COURT Property Owners and Real Estate Dealers Lose By Majority Opinion Handed Down Today. TENANTS' RIGHTS ARE UPHELD UNDER WAR TIME PROVISION Dissenting Opinion of 3,000 Words, by Chief Justice White and Associate Justices McKenna, McReynolds and Vandevanter, Declares Act Impairs Obligations of Contracts. The District of Columbia rent act, often referred to as the Ball act, a war-time law permitting tenants to remain in possession of rented property at pre-war rates and setting up a rent commission to pass on the questions of fair rentals was upheld today by the Supreme Court of the United States. It had been attacked by property owners and real estate dealers in what is known ts the Hirsh-Block case. Chief Justice White and Associate Justices McKenna, McReynolds and Vandevanter dissented from the majority opinion read by Justice Holmes. The Constitution bars such a statue in specific terms, the dissenting opinion said, in its prohibition against any state adopting a law "impairing the obligations of contracts." "It is contrary to the meaning of contract and leases as accepted all over the world," Mr. McKenna declared. CASES OF PUBLIC EMERGENCY. Justice Holmes, for the majority, declared that the laws of eminent domain and those conveying police powers justified restriction of property rights without compensation in cases of public emergency. Justice McKenna, in rendering the dissenting opinion, declared that the attack on "constitutional liberties" contained in the act "Struck at the very root of our civilization." "What concern of the people is it who occupies a cellar in Washington for business purposes or an apartment in New York?" asked Justice McKenna. "The answer is, to supply homes for the homeless. That answer will not satisfy. If this legislation is legal, what will be illegal?" Force of Declaration. After reviewing the history of the case, Mr. Justice Holmes continued: "No doubt it is true that a legislative declaration of facts that are material only as the ground for enacting a rule of law, for instance, that a certain use is a public one, may not be held conclusive by the courts, but a declaration by a legislature concerning public conditions, as by necessity and duty it must know, is entitled at least to great respect." "In this instance Congress stated a publicly notorious and also world-wide fact. That the emergency declared by the statute did exist must be assumed, and the question is whether Congress was incompetent to meet it in the way in which it has been met by most of the civilized countries of the world. "The general proposition to be maintained is that circumstances have clothed the renting of buildings in the District of Columbia with a public interest so great as to justify regulation by law. Plainly circumstances made no change in time or difference in space as to clothe with such an interest what at other times or in other places would be a matter of purely private concern. Extent of Public Interest. "It is enough to refer to the decisions as to insurance, as to irrigation and mining. They sufficiently illustrate what hardly would be denied. They illustrate also that the use by the public generally of each specific thing affected cannot be made the test of public interest and that the public interest may extend to the use of the land. The dispel the notion that what in its aspect may be only a private transaction may not be raised by its class or character to a public affair. The fact that tangible property is also visible tends to give a rigidity to our conception of our rights in it that we do not attach to other less concretely clothed. But the notion that the former are exempt from the legislative modification required from time to time in civilized life is contradicted not only by the doctrine of eminent domain, under which what is taken is paid for, but by that of the police power in its proper sense, under which property rights may be cut down and to that extent taken without pay. "Under the police power the right asserted and the validity of such regulation has been settled since Mun vs. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113. Only as Temporary. "It is said that a grain elevator may go out of business, whereas here the use is fastened upon the land. The power to go out of business when it exists is an elusive answer to gas companies and water works, but we need not stop at that. The regulation is put and justified only as a temporary measure. A limit in time to tide over a passing trouble may well justify a law that could not be upheld as a permanent change. "Machinery is provided to secure to the landlord a reasonable rent. It may be assumed that the interpretation of reasonable will deprive him in part at least of the power of profiting by the sudden influx of people in Washington caused by the needs of government and the war, and thus of a right usually incident to fortunately situated property of a part of the value of his property. But while it is unjust to pursue such profits from a national misfortune with sweeping denunciation, the policy of restricting them had been embodied in taxation and is accepted. Cites Usury Laws. "It goes little, if at all, farther than the restriction put upon the rights of the owner of money by the more debatable usury laws. The preference given to the tenant in possession is an almost necessary incident of the policy, and is traditional in English law. If the tenant remained subject to the landlord's power to evict, the attempt to limit the landlords' demands would fail. "Assuming that the end in view otherwise justifies the means adopted by Congress, we have no concern, of course with the question whether those means were the wisest, whether they may not cost more than they come to or will effect the results desired. It is enough that we are not warranted in saying that legislation that has been restored to for the same purpose all over the world is futile or has no reasonable relations to the relief sought. "The statute is objected to o the further ground that landlords and tenants are deprived by it of a trial by jury on the right to possession of the land. If the power of the commission established by the statutes to regulate the relations is established, tacked by property owners and real estate dealers in what is known ts the Hirsh-Block case. Chief Justice White and Associate Justices McKenna, McReynolds and Vandevanter dissented from the majority opinion read by Justice Holmes. The Constitution bars such a statue in specific terms, the dissenting opinion said, in its prohibition against any state adopting a law "impairing the obligations of contracts." "It is contrary to the meaning of contract and leases as accepted all over the world," Mr. McKenna declared. CASES OF PUBLIC EMERGENCY. Justice Holmes, for the majority, declared that the laws of eminent domain and those conveying police powers justified restriction of property rights without compensation in cases of public emergency. Justice McKenna, in rendering the dissenting opinion, declared that the attack on "constitutional liberties" contained in the act "struck at the very root of our civilization." "What concern of the people is it who occupies a cellar in Washington for business purposes or an apartment in New York?" asked Justice McKenna. "The answer is, to supply homes for the homeless. That answer will not satisfy. If this legislation is legal, what will be illegal?" Force of Declaration After reviewing the history of the case, Mr. Justice Holmes continued: "No doubt it is true that a legislative declaration of facts that are material only as the ground for enacting a rule of law, for instance, may not be held conclusive by the courts, but a declaration by a legislature concerning public conditions, as by necessity and duty it must know, is entitled at least to great respect, "In this instance Congress stated a publicly notorious and also world-wide fact. That the emergency declared by the statute did exist must be assumed, and the question is whether Congress was incompetent to meet it in the way in which it has been met by most of the civilized countries of the world. "The general proposition to be maintained is that circumstances have clothed the renting of building in the District of Columbia with a public interest so great as to justify regulation by law. Plainly circumstances made no change in time or difference in space as to clothe with such an interest what at other times or in other places would be a matter of purely private concern. Extent of Public Interest "It is enough to refer to the decisions as to insurance, as to irrigation and mining. They sufficiently illustrate what hardly would be denied. They illustrate also that the use by the public generally of each specific thing affected cannot be made the test of public interest and that the public interest may extend to the use of the land. They dispel the notion that what in its aspect may be only a private transaction may not be raised by its class or character to a public affair. The fact that tangible property is also visible tends to give a rigidity to our conception of our rights in it that we do not attach to other less concretely clothed. But the notion that the former are exempt from the legislative modification required from time to time in civilized life is contradicted not only by the doctrine of eminent domain, under which what is taken is paid for, but by that of the police power in its proper sense, under which property rights may be cut down and to that extent taken without pay. "Under the police power the right to erect building in a certain quarter of a city may be limited from 80 to 100 feet. Safe pillars may be required in coal mines, billboards in cities may be regulated, watersheds in the country may be kept clear. "These cases are enough to establish that a public exigency will justify the legislature in restricting property right sin land to a certain extend without compensation. But if to answer one need the legislature may limit height to answer another it may limit rent. We do not perceive any reason for denying the justification held good in the foregoing cases to a law limiting the property right now in question if the public exigency requires that. "The reasons are of a different nature, but they are certainly not less pressing. Congress has stated the unquestionable embarrassment of government and danger to the public health in the existing condition of things. The space in Washington is necessarily monopolized in comparatively few hands, and letting portions of it is as much a business as any other. Housing is a necessary of life. All the elements of public interest justifying some degree of public control are present. The only matter that seems to us open to debate is whether the statute goes too far. Might Become Confiscation. "For just as there comes a point at which police power ceases and leaves eminent domain, it may be conceded that regulations of the present sort pressed to a certain height might amount tot a taking without due process of law. deal with this case as concerning the "Perhaps it would be too strict to requirement of thirty days' notice. For, although plaintiff alleged that he wanted the premises for his own use, the defendant denied it and might have prevailed upon that issue under the act. The general question to which we have adverted must be decided, if not in this, then in the next case, and it should be disposed of now. "The main point against the law is that tenants are allowed to remain in possession at the same rent that they have been paying unless modified by the commission established by the act, and that thus the use of the land and the right of the owner to do what he will with his own and to make what contract he pleases are cut down. "But if the public interest be established the regulation of rates is one of the first forms in which it is asserted and the validity of such regulation has been settled since Mun vs. Illinois, 94 U.S., 113. Only as Temporary. "It is said that a grain elevator may go out of business, whereas here the use is fastened upon the land. The power to go out of business when it exists is an elusive answer to gas companies and water works, but we need not stop at that. The regulation is put and justified only as a temporary measure. A limit in time to tide over a passing trouble may well justify a law that could not be upheld as a permanent change. "Machinery is provided to secure to the landlord a reasonable rent. It may be assumed that the interpretation of reasonable will deprive him in part at least of the power of profiting by the sudden influx of people to Washington caused by the needs of government and the war, and thus of a right usually incident to fortunately situated property of a part of the value of his property. But while it is unjust to pursue such profits from a national misfortune with sweeping denunciation, the policy of restricting them had been embodied in taxation and is accepted. Cities Usury Laws. "It goes little, if at all, father than the restriction put upon the rights of the owner of money by the more debatable usury laws. The preference given to the tenant in possession is an almost necessary incident of the policy, and is traditional in English law. If the tenant remained subject to the landlord's power to evict, the attempt to limit the landlord's demands would fail. "Assuming that the end in view otherwise justifies the means adopted by Congress, we have no concern, of course, with the question whether those means were the wises, whether they may not cost more than they come to or will effect the results desired. It is enough that we are not warranted in saying that legislation that has been resored to for the same purpose all over the world is futile or has no reasonable relations to the relief sought. "The statute is objected to on the further ground that landlords and tenants are deprived by it of a trial by jury on the right to possession of the land. If the power of the commission established by the statutes to regulate the relations is established, as we think it is, by what we have said, this objection amounts to little. Courts Have Last Word. "To regulate the relations and to decide the facts affecting it are hardly separable. While the act is in force there is little to decide except whether the rent allowed is reasonable, and upon that question the courts are given the last word. "A [art of the exigencies is to secure a speedy and summary administration of the law, and we are not prepared to say that the suspension of ordinary remedies was not a reasonable provision of a statute reasonable in its aim and intent. "The plaintiff obtained judgment on the ground that the statute was void, root and branch. That judgment must be reversed." The case decided was that of Julius Block against Louis Hirsh, in error to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Justice McKenna's Opinion. Justice McKenna, in his dissenting opinion concurred in by the Chief Justice and Associate Justices Van Devanter and McReynolds, said: "The grounds of dissent are the explicit provisions of the Constitution of the United States; the specifications of the grounds are the irresistible deductions from those provisions, and, we think, would require no expression but for the opposition of those whose judgments challenge attention." "The national government, by the fifth amendment to the Constitution and the states, by the fourteenth, are forbidden to deprive any person of 'life, liberty or property, without due process of law.' A further provision of the fifth amendment is that private property cannot be taken for public use, without just compensation. And there is a special security to contracts in paragraph 10 of article I in the provision that 'no state shall *** pass any *** law impairing the obligations of contracts.' These provisions are limitations upon the national legislation, with which this case is concerned, and limitations upon state legislation, with which Marcus Brown Holding Company vs. Feldman et al. is concerned." Continuing, Justice McKenna said: "The statute in the present case is denominated 'the rent law,' and its purpose is to permit a lessee to continue in possession of leased premises -------- (Continued on column 3, page 4.) MILLION DOLLAR OUTPUT OF 16 DISTRICT PLANTS DURING YEAR OF 1919 Sixteen establishments in the District of Columbia in 1919 manufactured products valued at more than a million dollars annually, the census bureau announced today, while ten establishments manufactured products valued at between $500,000 and $1,000,000. Of the million dollar product group five were printing and publishing concerns, or concerns printing newspapers and periodicals. There were 595 manufacturing establishments in the District in 1919, the census bureau announced, compared with 514 in 1914, in which 14,101 persons were employed. Capital for these 595 establishments totaled $63,008,179 and $18,856,410 was paid out in salaries and wages in 1919, $5,667,379 being paid in salaries and $13,189 (?) in wages. EXCLUSION URGED OF ALL JAPANESE Absolute exclusion for the future of (?) Japanese immigration, with permission allowed for only temporary residence for tourists, students, commercial men, artists and teachers, was proposed before the House immigration committee today by V.S. McClatchy of Sacramento, Calif., as (?) fundamental (?) for permanent immigration legislation. Mr. McClatchy presented a declaration of principle drafted by the Japanese Exclusion League of California and approved by the California legislature and other western states. He appeared as the official spokesman for the league. The declaration called first for absolute exclusion in the future of all Japanese immigration, "not only male but female," as well as laborers, skilled and unskilled, and those of all trades and professions as recommended by former President Roosevelt. United States officials would enforce such exclusion under specific laws and regulations, and not, as at present, under an arrangement by which Mr. McClatchy declared the United States surrendered control and regulation to Japan. Attention of the committee was invited by the witness to what he characterized as "the surreptitious entry" of 700 Japanese who had settled in Nebraska. They came without passports and were unable to send for "picture brides," Mr. McClatchy said, with the result that 10 per cent of them already had married American girls. Mr. McClatchy declared that Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands would comprise a voting majority of the people there in a few years and would largely control the affairs of the island. He said the Japanese in the continental United States did not seek citizenship and that only 114 had c=become citizens under the act of 1918. Mr. McClatchy told the committee Japanese in the United States were required to report regularly to Japanese government officials and maintain allegiance always, adding that this form of dual citizenship was a very dangerous menace to the United States. PROVE U.S. STAND AND COUNCIL VOTE ON YAP, SAYS TOKIO (Continued from First Page.) been expected had the published text not conformed to the American understanding of the action of the council. JAPANESE ARE DIVIDED. By the Associated Press: TOKIO, April 17 - A sharp division of opinion in governmental circles as to what attitude should be adopted with regard to the American note on mandates is reported by close observers of the situation, an influential group, it is said, insisting that Japan should maintain her stand on the award made to her by the supreme council at Paris. The Jiji Shimpo, in an editorial article, expresses the opinion that Japan will reply negatively to the note, laying stress on the contention that the supreme council's decision in awarding the mandate for the former German islands in the north Pacific to Japan was an agreement collateral to the peace treaty, and therefore valid in the same sense as the decision regarding the distribution of the German warships. Moreover, it notes that the United States failed to file a protest when the mandate was published in May, 1919. The Kokumin Shimbun expresses belief that Japan will seek to satisfy America by settling the controversy over the Island of Yap separately. The standpoint of those who believe Japan should stand upon the council's decision is voice by Prof. Uesugi of the Imperial University, in an article in which he declares that should Japan be forced to comply with the American demand it would be the greatest national disgrace since the return of the Liaotung peninsula to China under pressure of the European powers after the Chino-Japanese war. Information from official quarters on the subject is that Japan is still in consultation with the allies. The Teikoku News Agency quotes an unnamed cabinet minister as declaring Japan must follow the decision of the league of nations, that (?) (?) EX-EMPRESS' BODY TAKEN TO POTSDAM Ex-Kaiser Absent as Train Departs - Touching Scenes at Family Funeral. By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, April 18. - The funeral train bearing the remains of the late former Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany to Potsdam left the little situation at Maarn, three miles from here, at 7:45 o'clock this morning. Former Emperor William did not go to Maarn to see the train depart, but remained at the house of Doorn in company with his brother, Prince Henry of Prussia. Princess Luise, daughter of the late empress, and Gen. von Gontard, chief of the household, were the only ones present to see the funeral car leave. Service at Doorn Castle. A service in mourning for the former German Empress Augusta Victoria was held in Doorn Castle yesterday morning, attended by all the members of the former imperial household, some of its most intimate friends and several officials of the Dutch government. The service was an affecting one, and during its progress former Emperor William frequently sobbed and at one point he was on the verge of a breakdown. Ex-Crown Prince Frederick William, his brothers Adalbert and Oscar and others of the mourning party were visibly moved as they knelt before the catafalque bearing the coffin in which lay the body. The service was conducted by Dr. Dryander, the former court chaplain, who took the text of his sermon from the tenth verse of the second chapter of Revelations: "Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life." Pathetic Scenes at Station. Never was contrast between former glory and present state of humiliation more accentuated than when Wilhelm followed the body of his wife to the station, where he entrusted the faithful companion of his grandeur and his sorrow to his sons and friends to take back to the Fatherland. The emperor that was and the ex-crown prince and other sons present were all attired in full uniform of the Prussian guard, their helmets crepe covered. The funeral procession arrived at the little station at Maarn in darkness, only broken by the light from a few lamps on the railway embankment. First came a huge car covered with flowers, followed by servants, who loaded the wreaths into the railway carriages. About ten minutes later the hearse arrived, flashing powerful searchlights. It was draped with black cloth, with white cross and border. Daughter With Ex-Emperor From the next automobile Chaplain Dryander alighted, wearing black robes. Immediately behind came an automobile, carrying the former emperor and his daughter, Princess Victoria Luise, which drove on until it reached a shelter of shrubs, hiding it from view. Frederick William, the ex-crown prince, and Prince Adalbert, in long gray mantles, walked briskly forward. Other members of the family alighted from their cars - Prince Oscar, the Duke of Brunswick, Prince Fuerstenberg, Gen. von Gontard, chief of the household; Countes von Keller and Countess von Rantzau, the stanchest friend of the late empress and ladies in waiting in the old days and the court chamberlain, Baron von Spitsemberg. Representatives of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, the dowager queen, and the prince consort, together with representatives of the King of Spain and the King of Sweden and a number of Dutch officials closed the procession. Leaves Body Aboard Train. When all had collected around the coffin Court Chaplain Dr. Dryander, his voice vibrating with emotion, delivered a brief oration. The coffin was then placed in the railway carriage, which Wilhelm Frederick William and Princess Luise entered and remained for a few moments. Then the ex-emperor led the way to the cars in which the other members of the party were to sleep and remain during their journey. He thanked them all and took leave of them. For a brief period Wilhelm became dimly visible to those who had gathered to watch the ceremony, his figure, that of a man broken by sorrow. Princess Luise entered the automobile with her father, the door closed and the car glided on, carrying the exile back to confinement at Doorn, to face his fate without the devoted wife who until now had shared his humiliation. Soon after the departure of the former emperor the ex-crown prince left the station precincts and returned to the castle, with the Duke of Brunswick and others who are staying in Holland. TRAIN CROSSES BORDER. Dutch Officials Accompany Party to Elten, Prussia. ZEVENARR, Holland, April 18. - The funeral train bearing the body of the former German Empress Augusta Victoria crossed the Dutch frontier at 10 o'clock this morning. The train stopped at the local depot only a few minutes, where it was hidden from view by two freight trains. Dutch officials and the German consul United States officials would enforce such exclusion under specific laws and regulations, and not, as at present, under an arrangement by which Mr. McClatchy declared the United States surrendered control and regulation to Japan. Attention of the committee was invited by the witness to what he characterized as "the surreptitious entry" of 700 Japanese who had settled in Nebraska. They came without passports and were unable to send for "picture brides," Mr. McClatchy said, with the result that 10 per cent of them already had married American girls. Mr. McClatchy declared that Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands would comprise a voting majority of the people there in a few years and would largely control the affairs of the island. He said the Japanese in the continental United States did not seek citizenship and that only 114 had become citizens under the act of 1918. Mr. McClatchy told the committee Japanese in the United States were required to report regularly to Japanese government officials and maintain allegiance always, adding that this form of dual citizenship was a very dangerous menace to the United States. PROVE U. S STAND AND COUNCIL VOTE ON YAP, SAYS TOKIO (Continued from First Page.) been expected had the published text not conformed to the American understanding of the action of the council. JAPANESE ARE DIVIDED. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 17.-A sharp division of opinion in governmental circles as to what attitude should be adopted with regard to the American note on mandates is reported by close observation of the situation, an influential group, it is said, insisting that Japan should maintain her stand on the award made to her by the supreme council at Paris. The Jiji Shimpo, in an editorial article, expresses the opinion that Japan will reply negatively to the note, laying stress on the contention that the supreme council's decision in awarding the mandate for the former German islands in the north Pacific to Japan was an agreement collateral to the peace treaty, and therefore valid in the same sense as the decision regarding the distribution of the German warships. Moreover, it notes that the United States failed to file a protest when the mandate was published in May, 1919. The Kokumin Shimbun expresses belief that Japan will seek to satisfy America by settling the controversy over the Island of Yap separately. The standpoint of those who believe Japan should stand upon the council's decision is voiced by Prof. Uesugi of the Imperial University, in an article in which he declares that should Japan be forced to comply with the American demand it would be the greatest national disgrace since the return of the Liaotung peninsula to China under pressure of the European powers after the Chino-Japanese war. Information from official quarters on the subject is that Japan is still in consultation with the allies. The Teikoku News Agency quotes an unnamed cabinet minister as declaring Japan must follow the decision of the league of nations, that she has no right to act by herself against its rulings, and that therefore the questions involved should be settled between America and the league. This cabinet minister. the news agency declares, expressed the opinion that Japan should reply to the United States along the lines he indicated. The agency also quotes M. Hayashi, councilor of the foreign office, as saying that America should approach the league of nations, as Japan has no right to interfere with its decisions. Nothing certain was known as to the views of Great Britain, France, and Italy, the councilor is quoted as adding, but he hoped that, whatever their views were, Japan would remain firm. Until the Yap question was settled, Japan, he declared, according to the agency, must maintain her present military administration of the Pacific Islands. PRESIDENT HARDING AIDS NEAR EAST RELIEF FUND Receipt of a generous check from President Harding for the Near East Relief fund was announced today by Mrs. Cabot Stevens. Other recent contributors to the fund are: The Twentieth Century Club, National Cathedral School for Girls, All Souls' Alliance, Mt. Vernon M. E. Epworth League, Brookland Baptist Church, St. Thomas' Church. St. Paul's Church, St. Stephen's Church, St. Margaret's Church, St. James' Church, Christ Church, Georgetown P. E. parishes, Anacostia Lodge, Merchants' Bank. Dr. and Mrs. Merrill E. Gates, Rev. Willaimson Smith, John B. Larner, Dr. and Mrs. William C. Rives, B. F. Saul, William H. Baldwin, Frank R. Jellef, Fred D. McKenna, Charles W. Semmes, Rudolph Jose, Charles J. O'Neill, James Sharp, Edwin C. Graham, Carl. A. Droop. W. W. Griffith. H. O. Taylor, H. N. Brauner, jr.; Walter T. Weaver, William Gude, Mrs. Henry W. Fitch, Mrs. Theodore W. Noyes, Ross P. Andrews, Miss Evelyn Bigelow, Miss Emma Gray, Miss Ella Underwood, Harper-Overland Company, Parker-Bridget Company, Woodward & Lothrop, House & Hermann, S. Kann Sons Co. and Crane & Co. A committee of Greeks, Syrians and Armenians gave an entertainment last night at Immaculate Conception hall for the benefit of the relief fund. Peter Papageorgeou had charge of the affair. Never was contrast between former glory and present state of humiliation more accentuated than when Wilhelm followed the body of his wife to the station, where he entrusted the faithful companion of his grandeur and his sorrow to his sons and friends to take back to the Fatherland. The emperor that was and the ex-crown prince and other sons present were all attired in full uniform of the Prussian guard, their helmets crepe covered. The funeral procession arrived at the little station at Maarn in darkness, only broken by the light from a few lamps on the railway embankment. First came a huge car covered with flowers, followed by servants, who loaded the wreaths into the railway carriages. About ten minutes later the hearse arrived, flashing powerful searchlights. It was draped with black cloth, with white cross and border. Daughter With Ex-Emperor. From the next automobile Chaplain Dryander alighted, wearing black robes. Immediately behind came an automobile, carrying the former emperor and his daughter, Princess Victoria Luise, which drove on until it reached a shelter of shrubs, hiding it from view. Frederick William, the ex-crown prince, and Prince Adalbert, in long gray manties, walked briskly forward. Other members of the family alighted from their cars-Prince Oscar, the Duke of Brunswick, Prince Fuerstenberg. Gen. von Gontard, chief of the household; Countess von Keller and Countess von Rantzau, the stanchest friend of the late empress and ladies in waiting in the old days, and the court chamberlain, Baron von Spitsemberg. Representatives of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, the dowager queen, and the prince consort, together with representatives of the King of Spain and the King of Sweden, and a number of Dutch officials closed the procession. Leaves Body Aboard Train. When all had collected around the coffin Court Chaplain Dr. Dryander, his voice vibrating with emotion, delivered a brief oration. The coffin was then placed in the railway carriage, which Wilheim Frederick William and Princess Luise entered and remained for a few moments. Then the ex-emperor led the way to the cars in which the other members of the party were to sleep and remain during their journey. He thanked them all and took leave of them. For a brief period Wilhelm became dimly visible to those who had gathered to watch the ceremony, his figure, that of a man broken by sorrow. Princess Luise entered the automobile with her father, the door closed and the car gilded on, carrying the exile back to confinement at Doorn, to face his fate without the devoted wife who until now had shared his humiliation. Soon after the departure of the former emperor the ex-crown prince left the station precincts and returned to the castle, with the Duke of Brunswick and others who are staying in Holland. TRAIN CROSSES BORDER. Dutch Officials Accompany Party to Elten, Prussia. ZEVENARR, Holland, April 18.-The funeral train bearing the body of the former German Empress Augusta Victoria crossed the Dutch frontier at 10 o'clock this morning. The train stopped at the local depot only a few minutes, where it was hidden from view by two freight trains. Dutch officials and the German consul here accompanied the train as far as Elten, Prussia, near the Dutch border. HAD TO STAY IN HOLLAND. Ex-Crown Prince Could Not Return If He Went to Potsdam. BY WILLIAM E. NASH. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News, Copyright, 1921. THE HAGUE, April 18.-"I suppose you know that the former German crown prince wanted to go to Potsdam with the remains of his mother," said a man in close touch with the government to the writer today. "He [?] on the advice of the Dutch cabinet, the members of which told him that once he had crossed the frontier he could not return to Holland. If, by the insistence of the allies or the German socialists. he should be forced to leave Germany where could he go? The risk was too great to run. If he had decided to go, however, I do not see how the Dutch government, by virtue of Dutch law, could have placed obstacles in his way." TRIBUTE PAID DEPARTED. Memorial Service Held by Temple-Noyes Lodge, F. A. A. M. Members of Temple-Noyes Lodge, No. 32, F. A. A. M., and their families paid tribute yesterday afternoon to deceased brethren, the memorial service being held at the Church of the Incarnation, 12th and N streets northwest, of which Canon William Tayloe Snyder, chaplain of the lodge, is rector. Those in whose memory the service was held were Harvey S. Irvin, Clement W. Huske, W. Clifford Long, George F. Schutt, Joseph M. Stoddard, William F. Hallam, Richard Kingsman and Herman A. Phillips. Special floral decorations were provided for the chancel of the church. Canon Snyder officiated. There was commemoration by Ralph P. Barnard, master of the lodge; an address by Carter B. Keene, past master, and a solo, "Fountain of Youth," by Mrs. Barnard, accompanied by Charles H. Kocher. Other special music was rendered by the Scottish Rite Quartet, J. Walter Humphrey, director; John F. M. Bowie, Homer S. Pope and Karl S. Kerr, with Harry G. Kimball, or-[?] THE BOSTON SUN GLOBE —FEBRUARY3, 1929 15 EFFORTS FOR HIS RACE BRINGS DR JUST HONORS Charleston, S. C. Colored Lad, Who Went To Dartmouth and Dedicated Life to Teaching At Harvard, is Sent Abroad to Further His Scientific Studies by MARY CHURCH TERRELL If you stood at the pier of the North German Lloyd in New York city a week or two ago you might have seen a tall slender, youthful-looking man go aboard the Dresden. He was on his way to Italy. If you should peep into a certain biological laboratory in Naples you would probably see this same man working hard to wrest the secrets from Mother Nature. Glancing at him casually, you might not observe that differs much from his companions, although Ernest Everett Just has African blood flowing through his veins This interesting man is a well-known scientist and by those competent to judge he is acknowledged to be the world's leading authority in his special field. For 21 years Dr. Just has taught at Howard University which was established for colored youth largely through the influence of Gen. O. O. Howard at the close of the Civil War. Chose Wider Field of Work For eight years he was a professor and head of the department of physiology in the Medical School of Howard University. Then, convinced that he could render more valuable service by training pre-medical students, he resigned from that position and became head of the department of zoology in the college. But he has been continually studying and investigating on the side in ad- nest [?] Just evidently resolved early in life that he would be a scholar. After hesitating a bit concerning the institution he would choose, the young man entered Dartmouth College. When he graduated in 1907 he had won special honors in zoology and history and was the only member of the class who had a magna cum laude. It is said that Ernest Just received the highest marks in Greek ever made by a freshman. At one time he thought seriously of specializing in Greek and then writing a thesis on a phase of the language in which he was deeply interested. But when he discovered that a German had anticipated him and had already written a ponderous tome on the subject, he changed his mind. Saw Biology as Great Field During his first year in biology the young student read an essay and discovered how little, comparatively speaking, was known about the development of the egg. The paucity of facts on the subject intrigued him and he received his degree at Dartmouth, it as deeply as he could. To this reso- (?) (?) Mr. Just accepted a position in Howard University, where he has been teaching ever since. In addition to the exacting duties he has discharged as a teacher of science in an institution like Howard. Dr. Just has done an unbelievably large amount of outside work. To some of it reference has already been made, but the half has not yet been told. If you should happen to read a book on "Cytology" which was published in 1924 you would find the name of Ernest Just as one of the authors among some of the most renowned scientists in the country. When the leading biologists of Germany were looking over the world's list of scholars who were best equipped to write a treatise on fertilization they chose Ernest Just to render that service. In a ponderous work on colloid chemistry, which consists of three volumes, Ernest Just is one of the authors, among whom are some who have won the Nobel Prize. Editor of a German Journal He is a member of the editorial board of an international journal, "Protoplasma," which is published in Berlin. His name also appears among the editors of the official organ of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. He belongs to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to the American Society of Zoologists, to the American Naturalists and last, but not least, is a corresponding member of La Societe des Sciences Naturelles et Mathematique of France. A signal honor was conferred upon Dr Just at the Ethical Culture Hall and inspire the youth of his race. He he was presented with the Spingarn Middle, which is given annually by J. E. Spingarn "to the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year or years in any honorable field of human endeavor." Thirty names were presented for consideration. Among the committee on awards were Ex-President Taft, Oswald Gar- The first of the Peerless prosperity specials is on the way to J. C. Harvey, 660 Beacon St., Boston. A TRAINLOAD of PEERLESS Cars for J.C. Harvey, Boston The New SIX-61 dition to doing his regular work. Every Summer for 20 years he has been engaged in research work at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. In 1916 Dr Just received the degree of PhD, magna cum laude, from the University of Chicago in zoology and physiology. He studied there a year during a leave of absence from Howard University. Such a high estimate has been placed upon this scientist's knowledge and skill and he has given such great promise of making valuable contributions to science from the very beginning of his career that the National Research Council has made it possible for him to do some of his research work. And he has not disappointed those who have reposed this confidence in him. Discoveries Have Been Important Even if I were able to understand the important discoveries made by Dr Just in the pursuit of his specialty, I could not enumerate and describe them in an article like this. It is said that some of the experiments he has made may throw light upon the cause and cure of cancer. Dr Just cherishes the hope that they will. Through some of his experiments, in which he used ultra-violet rays, he has made important discoveries bearing upon heredity and the determination of sex. Although Ernest Everett Just was reared in poverty, he has a blessing for which he should be very thankful. His mother was a woman of high ideals and forceful character with a fairly good education for that section in which educational facilities for colored people are often so poor. When Mrs Just's son Ernest was born, 45 years ago, in Charleston, S C, the mother supported the family by teaching school and working in the phosphate fields about three miles from Charleston. Mrs Just enjoys the distinction of having established the first industrial school in the State of South Carolina, and she was the first principal. Ernest attended his mother's school and then went to the State College at Orangeburg. Later he decided to go North to study. He had $5 in his pocket he says, and two pairs of shoes, one of which had seen better days. Worked Way to New York He got a job with the Clyde Line and worked his way to New York city. He hunted for work as soon as he landed and found it. In a short time he succeeded in saving enough money to go to Kimball Academy at Meriden, N H. Here he completed the four-year course in three years. In spite of the prodigious amount of studying he must have been obliged to do in order to shorten his course a whole year he found time to be editor of the school paper and president of the debating society. Then he decided to go to college. Errison Villard, Bishop John Hurst of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. John Hope, president of Morehouse College and Mr James H. Dillard of the Jeannes Fund. They selected Ernest Everett Just as the man upon whom the honor should be conferred. A more modest and embarrassed man it would have been hard to find. He wrote to the committee that he was sorry he had to appear before an audience to go through the ceremony. He felt that such publicity was in- compatible with scientific endeavor, he said. But he acquiesced nevertheless. When he reached the hall he found the Governor of New York to honor him. In an appropriate speech Gov Whitman presented the gold medal and received a shy "Thank you" from the recipient in return. Nobody dislikes being in th elimelight any more than Just. In Naples Now for Study And now, thanks to the generosity of the good friends who manage the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, Dr Just ids in Naples, where he will pursue the studies he loves so well for six months. The foundation has given the Howard University department of zoology, of which Dr Just is the head, $80,000. Of this gift the sum of $15,000 is to be used each year for five years and $5000 of it is to be expended in equipping the laboratory. In the agreement it is expressly stipulated by the foundation that if Dr Just should leave Howard University or should die the gift would be automatically canceled. Accompanying Dr Just when he started on his voyage was his daughter, Margaret, who is about 15 years old, the eldest child of a family consisting of two girls and a boy. Mrs Just, who reminds one of a piece of dainty Dresden china with her black, bobbed hair and her girlish face and figure, insisted that not one word should be said about herself. But at the risk of disobeying her I shall say that she was graduated with honors from Ohio State University and has taught school. The friends of the scientist have often advised him to give up teaching and devote himself entirely to research work. They regret that he consumes so much time and strength in the classroom that might better be devoted, they say, to experiments and investigations from which so much valuable information might be gained. But Dr Just feels he is "called" to teach and inspire the youth of his race. He is convinced that his contribution to the development and the welfare of his group lies in rendering that particular service and up to date nobody has been able to swerve him from his purpose. Although Dr Just is 45 years old, he looks much younger and he is in excellent health. He is in the prime of life and there is every reason to hope and believe that he has years of activity and usefulness before him. Foreign Debts Already Cost America Big Sum WASHINGTON, Jan 19 - While J. P. Morgan and other bankers and statesmen of the world are assembling to see what can be done about scaling down the German reparations, moves are also on to make further cancellations of Europe's debts to America. The United States Government is paying interest at the rate of 4 1/2 percent on nearly all of the huge fund borrowed by Europe, while the 12 debtor Nations are paying the United States various rates, the highest of which is 3 percent. The lowest, in the case of Italy and certain other borrowers, is nothing at all. The differences between what the United States Treasury pays out as interest on money loaned the 12 Nations and what it receives from those Nations in return will amount to $332,261,750 in 1929, according to figures compiled from the various debt-funding agreements. 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HARVEY DISTRIBUTOR BRANCH 880 Main St., Worcester 660 BEACON St., At Kenmore Station BOSTON P E E R L E S S as inadequate is shown by the pending negotiations looking to a liquidation of the war debts and involving a further whittling down by the United States of the terms under which the foreign debts have been funded. The arrangement is a simple one. During the war the United States borrowed money, through the various Liberty Loans, 'a large portion of which was lent to Europe. Europe agreed to pay interest at 5 percent. The United States paid an average of 4 1/4 percent, this payment being represented by the annual interest paid Liberty Bond holders. Under that arrangement, the United States would have made a profit represented by the difference between 5 percent incoming and 4 1/4 percent out-going interest. That assumes payment by Europe of the interest. After the war, Congress authorized a change under which a new rate of 4 1/4 percent was charged Europe on the sums lent. The new rate was retroactive, going back to the date of the loans. By that act, Congress reduced the accumulated interest to Europe by several hundred million dollars. It was wiped off the slate. Thereafter, in addition, the rate was still further reduced in the various debt-funding contracts. $55,325,000 to Great Britain Great Britain is paying three percent interest on $4,426,000,000 in 1929. This sum is outstanding in Liberty bonds on which the American Government is paying 4 1/4 percent interest. The Federal Treasury is paying out $1888,000,000 in interest to these bondholders. It is receiving from Great Britain interest to the extent of $132,675,000. The difference, $55,325,000, represents the gift made in 1929 by the United States taxpayers to the British tax-payers. Italy is paying no interest this year on its debt of $2,042,000,000 but will begin to pay annual interest at the rate of one-eighth of one percent several years hence. The United States Treasury is paying Liberty bond holders $85,935,000 in interest in 1929 on this debt. It is receiving n interest in return. The entire $85,935,000 is an outright donation from the American tax-payers to the Italian taxpayers. Belgium owes $417,780,000, less a small installment paid on the principal. On $171,780,000 the sum borrowed, plus interest, prior to the Armistice, Belgium is paying no interest and will pay none, gradually paying off the principal only during 62 years. On the remaining $246,000,000 Belgium is paying $2,500,000 interest in 1929, about one percent. The American taxpayer is paying $17,347,650 interest this year on money lent Belgium. Belgium is paying $2,500,000 on the same money. The difference, $14,847,650, represents the American taxpayers' donation to the Belgium taxpayers in 1929. France Pays No Interest France, owing $4,025,000,000, is paying no interest whatever. The American taxpayer is putting $171,065,000 in the Federal Treasury in 1929 to meet this obligation. This probably will not be reduced by any subsequent debt-funding arrangement with France. The pact agreed to between the American and French debt-funding commissions contemplated the remission of all interest for five years. While the pact has never been ratified, it is extremely doubtful that any agreement will be made which will afford the United States better terms. Indeed, France has opposed ratification on the grounds that the terms are too hard on the French taxpayer. Jugo-Slavia has funded her debt, somewhat similar to Great Brtan, at a cost of $2,500,000 to the American tax-payer in 1929. Six smaller Nations-Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Esthonia - have made funding arrangements similar to that entered into with Great Britain. Under those pacts, the American treasury is donating $2,589,100 in interest in 1929 to the six Nations. Czechoslovakia, Romania and other Nations have funded their debts on a somewhat different basis, making it difficult to compute the exact size of their favors in 1929 from the American Treasury. $332,000,000 for Ten Nations In the case of 10 of these 12 Nations, however, the total sum which the American taxpayers must make up in 1929 to meet the deficiency in interest is $332,000,000. This, it is felt in Europe, is not enough. The opinion prevails that America, being rich and prosperous should give more. Accordingly, a general all-around scaling down of debts has been proposed under the general caption of "Liquidation of the War Debts." Present funding agreements with Europe contemplate a gradual retirement of the principal debt owing the United States over a period of 62 years. The figures given about represent the 1929 burden of those agreements, so far as the American taxpayer is concerned. The money to make them is included in the budget sent to Congress by the President. (Copyright, 1929, by William P. Helm Jr) Couldn't Be Anything Else Student (sniffling) - I have a cold or something in my head. Professor - A cold, undoubtedly. - Stray Stories. NO MORE BIG BILLS PRINTED AFTER APRIL 30 WASHINGTON - The new currency will be printed from plates of 12 subjects each instead of from plates of eight subjects each; as is the practice in printing existing currency. Printing of the size now in use will cease in April 30. The new currency will be 6 5-16 by 2-11-16 inches in dimension, instead of 6 5-11 by 2 11-12 inches as previously stated. The size of the present currency is 7 7-16 by 3 1/8 inches, so that the reduction will be approximately 28 per-cent. The new face designs are similar to those now appearing on the large-size notes, except for a change in the portrait in certain denominations. The back designs of the $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 denominations differ from the present designs in that they carry an engraved likeness of public buildings. The designs on backs of all other denominations are ornate, similar to those now in use. The Treasury seals and the serial numbers will be imprinted in the following colors: Silver certificates, blue; United States notes, red; gold certificates, yellow; Federal Reserve notes, green; national bank notes, brown. RIGID INSPECTION OF CHRYSLER PARTS A very interesting illustration of the rigid requirements laid down for Chrysler parts is to be found in the camshaft, which is subjected, after manufacture, to no fewer than 49 different tests," says C. E. Fay. These are made with delicate scientific instruments calculated to a precision of two-tenths of one-thousandth of an inch - the size of a human hair split 10 times. "The camshaft is carefully checked for exact dimensions of its bearings, for the degree of elevation, contour and timing of its individual cams, for resistance and for the position of its integral gears. "The accuracy of manufactured parts naturally depends on the accuracy of the tools and instruments employed. These tools and instruments are scrupulously examined in the Chrysler tool gauge department before ever seeing active service. "Amplifiers and microscopes, the most costly cameras, balances so [?]ne that they register the difference in weight of a scrap of paper before and after a pencil mark is put on it - every device for accuracy that scientists have developed is at the side of the inspectors who safeguard Chrysler's output." 16 THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE - FEBRUARY 3, 1929 The New Delivery Cars and Trucks FARGO Built by CHRYSLER MOTORS In these new Fargo commercial cars - 1/2-ton Packet and the 3/4-ton Clipper- low-cost delivery receives the tremendous advantages of the smartness, the power, the dependability and the economy which have lifted Chrysler Motors to its leadership. 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FAY COMPANY 1031-1033 Commonwealth Ave. Phone Stadium 4910 FARGO A CHRYSLER MOTORS PRODUCT HARVARD STUDENTS RAZZ HARKNESS HOUSE PLAN AS TOO ENGLISH All the Important College Magazines and Papers, Also the Student Council Oppose the Plan Recently Announced by Pres Lowell - Have Many Objections - Want To Preserve Harvard College as Entity By VICTOR O. JONES NOT so hot. So the Harvard College undergraduate seems to regard the "House Plan" announced recently by Pres Lowell, as made possible by the $11,000,000 gift of Edward S. Harkness. Ever since the announcement educators, Harvard graduates, newspapers, and undergraduates of other colleges have joined in a confused din of comment, favorable and unfavorable. Everybody has had something to say of this far-reaching experiment, one of the most revolutionary changes ever made at Harvard, except the body of undergraduates. They have been apparently shut in by a wall of silence. Perhaps it was because they had not yet been able to make up their minds, perhaps because the have not felt greatly concerned, whatever the cause very little of what the undergraduates themselves thought of the "House Plan" has been audible. Now, however, the opinion of the students appear to have set, and it does not, at least as so far expressed, approve the much discussed innovation. "The "House Plan" has formed the main topic of conversation among those Harvard undergraduates who take a serious interest in education, and for once, perhaps for the first time, all three of Harvard's undergraduate organs have been unanimous in at least questioning the wisdom of the wholesale alteration of Harvard's social system along lines explained by the Harvard author[?]ies. As further undergraduate disapproval, in part at least, may be taken the recent report of the Student Council, urging the authorities to make over almost entirely their physical plans for the establishment of the "House." "Activities Men" Of course, the sentiments of both the Student Council and the editors of the three Harvard journals, should perhaps not be taken as representative of all Harvard. The men who run these organizations, in general, belong to that group known as "activities men," and these, perhaps naturally enough, are opposed to the "house" plan because it will tend at least to weaken their organizations by decentralization. dence of the student, would spoil, to a certain extent at least, the unity which has been Harvard's. But wen its campaign proved unavailing, and when Mr Harkness raised his ante to $11,000,000, the Crimson adopted an attitude of tacit opposition, arguing, it may be assume , that $3,000,000 might be wrong, but that the larger amount couldn't possibly be. Since the announcement of the larger gift the Crimson has accepted the "House" plan as a necessary evil and has devoted most of its attention to securing minor changes in the plans, changes which would not materially affect the administration's determination to go through with the project, but which might be made to appease undergraduate sentiment. Lampoon's Jibes Throughout, the Crimson editorials have lacked the fire which characterized the writings of editors on some past boards. They have always been respectful and the editors have always appeared to be very careful of directly opposing the administration. Not so, however with the Lampoon, Harvard wits, among other cracks on the house plan, offer the following: "I rather thank an ocean oyster Has it on a scholar in a cloister; For though an oyster lives in Darkness, He's never patronized by Harkness." and also, "If Harkness insists on building one of these memorials at Harvard we hope that he will at least widen the Gothic windows." And Now Comes "Mother Advocate" But ribaldry was expected from the Lampoon, always eager to stick puns into the fondest bubbles of the administration. But when the current Advocate made its appearance yesterday there was a good deal of surprise across the Charles. Until very recently old "Mother Advocate," as the literary fortnightly is known among the undergraduates, has seldom been in the limelight. The editors of this sheet have always held aloof from controversial subjects, have not indulged in baseball games with their contemporaries, and except in one instance, have never been suppressed in their **ore than 50 years existence. quadrangles. The tutors, who seem to know the value of "good living," are inflamed with visions of low-beamed, paneled rooms, exhaling an odor of moroccan leather and oak polish, where everything will be done for the bachelor delectation of man. Students, half starved on the fried scallops and French rolls in the Square, hear with an almost visible effusion of saliva of the leisurely, sumptuous, and, in particular, endowed dinners to be served "in hall." Before us a delightful prospect is spread, architecturally, domestically and gastronomically. But it is not seen that the New House Plan spells the end of Harvard College. * * * The Details of the Plan The New House Plan is still a nebulous proposition. But, as generally understood, it involves the transformation of the College plant, through rearrangement and new construction, into a group of separate housing and dining units, each of which is to shelter 200 or *** undergraduates, a number of graduate students, tutors and professors and a dean or house master. A student will live in his House during his three upper-class years. The University will supply him with the best food it can command, and will expect him to eat most of his meals in the House dining hall. Each House is primarily a social and athletic unit, co-equal in the eyes of the University with every other. The whole undergraduate body, freshmen alone excepted, will be adcommodated among the Houses. Granted these premises, which in all large particulars will be generally allowed, the later development of the Houses in directions scarcely welcome seems inevitable. Colored by House Master In the first place, each House will be given a distinctive name. Emerson and Lowell would do very nicely; Norton might be attractive, having a faint smack of the older Merton; the Cantabrigian Trinity would find an effective New England echo in a House christened Unity. Once so named, it is unavoidable and indeed quite naturally to be expected that in the course of years each House will acquire a recognizable individuality. From the very temperament of the house master, from the personalities of the professors and tutors resident therein, from the type of students which will be attracted to that particular house (much as we may disclaim any idea of allowing students to form large class-groups), even from its name, location and architecture, a house will take on a color, an atmosphere, a reputation distinct to itself. This distinction will appear not only on the social or athletic level but on the academic as well. The large proportion, compared with present practice, of professors, tutors and graduate students in Academic and Philanthropic Career of Gustavus Adolphus Parker By PHILIP NICHOLS UPON reaching the age of 18, Gustavus Adolphus Parker found himself about to graduate with the class of 1949 from Bumpkinsville Academy. He had not distinguished himself academically or athletically; if he had never received above a C, neither had he ever fallen below a D. If he had never made the football team, neither had he ever aspired to the school magazine. Therefore he was the more surprised when good old Marcus Jenks, who had been captain of the football team two years before, and who had revisited the old school in order to obtain recruits for Harvard University, Unit C, paid him a special visit. "Gustavus," he said, "the fellows all hope to see you at Harvard University, Unit C, next year." "But how do you know I am going to Harvard at all?" asked young Gustavus. "I sensed it. Your talents incline you that way. You take easily to discipline, and do what you are told." "Yes," sighed Gustavus, "I guess you're right. And I gotta admit that the little talk you gave us this morning has just about sold me on good old Unit C." How to Get In "Very well, then," said Good Old Marcus, "that's settled. Now remember this: when your application blanks come, you will be asked, among other things, to give your first, second and third choices of units you would like to attend. You must on no account mention Unit C at all l" "Why?" "Because the dean will think y want to join the units you list cause you have friends there or because you hear the tutors are good, or because you think the fellows will be congenial, or for some other low and detestable reason. It is therefore a regular rule to put a man where he least wants to be. So you must do as I say." "Yes," said Gustavus Adolphus, and that point was settled. He passed school examinations, he passed 50 different college board examinations, including six intelligence tests, and he mailed 14 photographs of himself, nine clothed and 5 nude, and a sample of his hair. He answered 32 pages of questions about himself, on subjects which he knew all too well men talked about, but hardly knew they wrote. Finally, when he was proved fit and right-minded in every conceivable way, he was admitted to Harvard University, Unit C. One morning in September he tumbled from his **** in the airplane pull****, and took a taxi to Harvard University, Unit C. He found a quadrangle of weather-beaten old Gothic buildings, At least they looked old, but he was disillusioned by a scaffolding over in one corner. There were some workmen, and a sign saying, "Flanagan Weatherbeating Company- That Thirteenth Century Look!" Upon inquiry he found the janitor, who accepted in silence the $20 bill which Gustavus had been told was the proper thing, and assigned him a room, a towel, and a washrag. Then he said, "Better hurry, young feller, and see your tutor. You'll be just in time for the morning shower." Gustavus was more than a little puzzled by those cryptic words, but he made haste to find his tutor. The tutorial chamber was large and gloomy, with mullioned windows. There was -amazing sight- a line which stretched almost all around the room, composed of naked youths, each with a bundle of clothes under his arm. His reading, which had been mostly in such relics of a vanished epoch as "Stover at Yale," and "The Plastic Age," had prepared him for nothing so strange. "Is Mr Pillsbury here?" he gaspingly asked, of the room in general. Treasured Tradition "End of the line, Freshman," growled someone, "and off with your clothes." Seeing nothing else to do, he did that. There was a room beyond, obviously a bathroom, from which a cloud of steam was coming. Every now and then somebody would emerge from it, wet and carrying a towel; then there would be a cry of "Next!" and whoever was at the head of the line would enter the sanctuary. The puzzlement of Adolphus increased, but fortunately the young man standing in front of him was very courteous, and offered to explain everything. "You see," he said, "it used to be a doctrine of old Professor Manderburg that 'One shower bath with a tutee is worth 40 weeks of feet on the table and smoking a pipe.' Dr. Pillsbury, here, has adopted the dictum, and so we all have to come once a week to have a shower with him. This happens to be the day." By this time, all those ahead having performed their ablutions, the courteous youth disappeared at the succeeding cry "Next." Academic Intimacy Soon the youth reappeared, and Gustavus found himself entering the sanctum. There were two showers, side by side, from which superheated floods were pouring. Under one was a great, hairy man, with an enormous paunch and black, bristling moustaches. He had a slate, on which he could write without being interfered with by the waters that were flowing over him. "Take that shower," he said. Gustavus did. "Name, please." "Gustavus Adolphus Parker." "You mean G. Parker, '53." He wrote. "Please read for me by next week all of Ben Jonson, Middleton, and Massinger. Oh, yes, and you might toss in 'John Bunkle,' and 'The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism.' You'll find a towel on the pile there. Next!" Thus ended Gustavus' first tutorial conference, under the system of establishing relations as close as possible between teacher and pupil. He found the courteous youth waiting for him, so he made haste to dry and dress. "We might go first," said his new friend, "to get off our five minutes daily prostration at the tomb of The Donor." "Oh," said Gustavus, 'you mean Mr-" "Sh-h-h-h-h," he was interrupted. "It is sacrilege to utter the name, at least until the last half of your senior year." Learning About Art They soon found the image. It was about three feet high, set in a niche, and colored green. It Gustavus had not known it was The Donor, he would have supposed it to be a Buddha, so closely did it resemble the usual representations of that deity. He forebore comment until the five minutes of prostration were past, but then he could not help saying that it did look much like the accepted portraits of The Donor. "But," said his guide, "you must understand that it is not supposed to look like him. It is an idealized portrait. Have you no understanding of Art?" After admiring the counterfeit presentment of The Donor, which he did whole-heartedly, as soon as he heard that critics approved it, they went to see the architectural marvels of the place. Gustavus wanted first to look at the statue of John Harvard, which he had been told was near the former site of University Hall, but his guide informed him that it had recently been scrapped. "After all," said he, "of what importance was the man? He only founded the place." And he also said, "Undoing his work has caused us more trouble than anything else, these last 30 years." Instead, they went to see the Radcliffe Camera. Gustavus asked if it took good pictures, and what Radcliffe girls wanted with cameras, but his guide very patiently explained that it was former adornment of Oxford University, and that it had been purchased, taken down, and set up here on the former site of the Widener Library. It was a roundabout but effective way of getting rid of the Sargent Murals. An Observing Youth, You See After they had seen it, they crossed High st (formerly known as Massachusetts av) and strolled down to the Cam, which had once been the Charles River. "I seem," said Gustavus, "to detect an English influence." "Certainly," said his friend, "and why not? Once we aped the Germans: surely this is an improvement. Of course, the thing can be carried too far. I may be old-fashioned, but I can't approve of that new dormitory they're building over in Unit A, which But on the Crimson, the Harvard newspaper, the oldest of its kind in the country, are to be found, not only "activities men," but also athletes and at least a few scholars. The board of the Advocate, a literary fortnightly, even older than the Crimson, is even less predominantly composed of "bug men," and very many of the highest types of scholars, besides a goodly number of men whose sole interest lies in writing, are to be found on its personnel. As for the Lampoon, the humorous fortnightly, older even than "Life," its staff is made up almost entirely of "good fellows," of the "writs" of Harvard. The Student Council, on the other hand, is made up predominantly of athletes, with a sprinkling of undergraduate editors and men generally active in the social and political side of Harvard. Taking the three publications and the Student Council together, there could hardly be a better cross-section of Harvard undergraduate opinion. Crimson Has Opposed Well, what do they think of the "House" plan, of Mr Harkness, the Honor of the money making the plan possible, and of the other features of the plan which had received so much publicity? The Crimson, being a daily, has perhaps had more to say on the subject than either of its two coontemporaries. Under the administration of Alan Sweezy of Englewood, one of the most prominent members of the senior class and more recently under that of Richard A. Stout of Louisville, Ky, his roommate, the Harvard daily has been opposed to the House plan, with reservations. Last Fall, when the gift of $3,000,000 was first announced, the Crimson ran almost daily editorials against the plan, and this despite the fact that the paper, through its cooperative attitude towards the administration, was rapidly becoming known as an official organ of the dean's office and University Hall. The Crimson, in various editorials, claimed that the new plan would take all the pleasure out of the social life of Harvard, would impinge upon the "I'm Mr. Harkness, boy!" "Oh no you aint, this guy's Anonymous!" Reprinted from the Harvard Lampoon. the same paper which by its out-spokeness two years ago brought to a head the smouldering animosity between Harvard and Princeton. This paper, in the two issues which have appeared since the Harkness gift was announced, has been unsparing in its gibes at the scheme and has satirized the whole plan from beginning to end. And most of the Lampoon cracks at the "plan" have been appreciated by the undergraduates, or at least by that part of the undergraduates who consider such matters. Perhaps the Lampoon's most appreciated cartoon on the "House" plan appeared in the Christmas issue. Drawn by Alan Blackburn, the Lampoon president, it represented a burlesque of Cimabue's famous Madonna, with Pres Lowell holding in his lap a student with large glasses and a Phi Beta Kappa key, surrounded, after the manner of early Italian paintings, by a flock of Harvard professors, all in the guise of angels, and all wearing tremendous P. B. K. keys. The title was, "Christmas in the New House." And in the most recent issue Last on the scene with an opinion on the House plan, the Advocate has out-Lampooned the Lampoon and out-Crimsoned the Crimson. In the current issue there appear no less than three comments on the "House," covering several pages, and all are unfavorable. In the first of these Theodore Hall Jr, a senior, in a serious, almost sad essay, writes on "The Passing of Harvard College." An editorial further attacks the plan, and then in a piece of satire which has Harvard by the ears, Philip Nichols rips the House Plan, Mr Harkness, Pres Lowell and everything connected with the venture into shreds. The title of this little story is "The Academic and Philanthropic Career of Gustavus Adolphus Parker," and gives the author's impression of what Harvard will be like under the "House" plan. Excerpts of these two articles, picturing, as they so clearly do, all the objections of Harvard students to the new scheme of things, are herewith printed below, by the courtesy of the Advocate. ON THE PASSING OF By THEODORE HALL JR SLOWLY, with a certain grave refusal to impede the changes which time marshals against it, the college bearing the old and honored name of John Harvard is passing away. That college which was founded 140 years before America became a Nation, which was beloved and reverenced by nigh to 10 generations of mankind, is slipping from our hands, and we, a forward and impudent generation, look on approvingly and with loud mouthings applaud its departure. Surely we do this in simple ignorance. Led by our more articulate guardians of opinion, we follow, in a procession which candor must declare little short of ovine, to a hasty and purblind acceptance of that scheme of educational reform known as the New House Plan. That it involves factors which are dangerous to the type of college here developed, factors which aim directly and in no uncertain manner at the very existence of the college, is something overlooked in the general awe at the size and gratitude for the generosity of the gift. The constructive architectural imagination, which of recent years in Cambridge has been gratified by ess on every hand, is delighted by long vistas of elaborate and handsome HARVARD COLLEGE will promote a greater general attention to scholarly activity. Considering this intensity and its effect on human nature, how very likely it is that, in time, one house will be outstanding for students and tutors of the natural sciences, another of economics and history, another of literature. By no means exclusive of other subjects, this limited specialization will certainly attain visible proportions. A Short Step The step at this point from resident professors and tutors teaching men in general college classes to the endowment of chairs for these same instructors to teach classes within their own House is not as wide as it may seem. It would be safe to say that within 10 years gifts will be offered for the purpose of establishing tutorship and professorships within the walls of particular Houses. The Corporation may refuse these gifts at first; as the Houses grow older, as their sons become prosperous, grateful and generous, as the proffered endowments become larger and more numerous, it would be unbelievable that the Corporation would remain adamant. The same insidious plausibility of material progress will do its work. Allow this movement longer time and the general college instruction will be wholly taken over by the separate Houses. It may be argued that no such result has been reached in the English college system. But there is no comparison. The American restlessness, ingenuity and distrust of tradition will work to lengths bound by no contemporary models. Specialization within a House, the concentration of teaching force and students in a particular field, will perhaps seem highly attractive to some not- distant generation. But the last part of the core, the centrality of undergraduate Continued on Next Page $500 FOR YOUR OLD CAR $500 A shrewd business man buys his new automobile now. Our February Sale is the greatest merchandising campaign in our automobile history. We will allow you $500 on your used car of any make, if in good saleable condition, as part payment for a new 1929 Gardner Eight or Velie Six - Roadsters, Sedans, Coupes, Broughams. These are brand new, bright, shiny automobiles - late models - guaranteed service. Step on it - all day long! It is amazing the way the new Gardner Eight-in-line travels at top speed from sunrise to sunset without effort or strain -and this goes for the driver, too! Performance such as you never dreamed possible. 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New England Velie Co. 618 Commonwealth Av., Boston, Mass. The hearings by the subcommittee will be resumed upon the call of Congressman Crosser, who is chairman of the subcommittee. That the bill will be favorably reported was indicated by the comment of committee members today. JUDGE TERRELL IS [*Washington Times*] TO BE REAPPOINTED [*Jan. 20 - 1914*] President and McReynolds Have Long Conference Over Jobs in the District. Following a long conference at the White House today by President Wilson and Attorney General McReynolds over District appointments: it was learned that the President and Mr. McReynolds have determined upon the reappointment of Judge Robert H. Terrell, colored, as a member of the municipal bench. It is asserted that Senator Vardaman of Mississippi, who generally has opposed the nomination of colored persons to Federal office, has voiced no objections to Judge Terrell's reappointment. The President desires, it is said, to show by his appointment that he has no prejudices against colored appointments for certain positions, and that he realized that Judge Terrell has made a good record while in office. Bricklayers' President Hurt by Automobile William T. Levy, president of the bricklayers' union, was struck by an automobile in Pension Office Square this morning and injured seriously. The automobile was a delivery car, but the name of the driver has not been learned by the police. Levy is suffering from concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull. He is sixty years old and lives at 310 Indiana avenue northwest. IN CONGRESS TODAY. PITTSBURGH COURIER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1949 THE PITTSBU Bar Association Offers Only 3 Colored Served By ART PETERS Who will be the next colored judge appointed to the Municipal Court? This question, along with a wave of speculation accompanied the recent announcement of a bill passed by Congress and signed by President Truman providing three additional judges for the District's Municipal Court. In a letter to President Truman, the Washington Bar Association last week endorsed six attorneys for the post. They were: Richard R. Atkinson, a member of the District Slum Redevelopment Authority; Andrew W. Howard, Assistant District Attorney; Hubert B. Pair, assistant Corporation Council; George A. Parker, Dean of the Terrell Law School; Emory B. Smith, and Maurice R. Weeks, president of the Washington Bar Association. Atty. Pair The fact that at the present time there are thirty-eight judgeships Atty. Atkinson Atty. Weeks authorized for the various courts for the District of Columbia of which only one, Armond W. Scott, is colored, was also mentioned in the letter. Also cited is the fact that one-third of the population of the District is colored. THREE JUDGES SERVED Only three Negro jurists have occupied the Municipal Court bench in the District of Columbia for a period of forty-four years. The three colored Judges are Robert H. Terrell, deceased, who served in this capacity for twenty-four years; James A. Cobb, who served in a similar capacity for nine years and the present incumbent, Armond W. Scott, who is now in this thirteenth year of service. MADE JUDICIAL HISTORY - These three figures have made local judicial court history. They are, left to right, Judge Robert H. Terrell, deceased; Judge James A. Cobb and Judge Armond W. Scott. The recent announcement of a bill passed by Congress authorizing three new posts in the District's Municipal Court has opened possibilities for the appointment of another colored jurist. about 8:30 o'clock. Tuesday night when a party of five men made an attack upon the jailhouse at Fairfield. All fiver were armed with shot guns and it was said that each of them carried a pistol. Police Officer Alexander was guarding the jailhouse with two other officers when the attack was made. The three officers successfully guarded the jail against the attack and forces the attackers to disperse. It was estimates that practically half a hundred shots were fired in all. The exchange of shots awoke practically every resident in that section of the country and they hurried to the scene of the jailhouse armed with pistols, rifles, and shotguns and whatever they could get their hands on first. The news of the attack spread rapidly through Ensley, Fairfield and Westfield and offers of aid were received from parties of citizens from each community. The rumor also spread that the trouble and shooting had been caused by union and nonunion miners. This ? held in jails in Ensley and Fairfield in connection with an attack upon two colored miners near Pratt City several weeks ago. The officers have the body of the man that was killed, but the other four members of the attacking party made good their escape. SHOT RUINS SHOE; FAILS TO INJURE FOOT Residents of the Hill district in the vicinity of Kirkpatrick street and Webster avenue were terrorized, several narrowly escaped injury from flying bullets and Edward Morton of 4 Wesley street experienced most of the sensations of being wounded at 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon when Morton was chased through several streets by an unidentified man who emptied his revolver at Morton. One HAD QUARRELED WITH HER Jacksonville. Fla. May 6.—As an aftermath of a quarrel with his wife, which occurred last Sunday night, Jesse Williams, 34, sawmill worker of Northeast Springfield,, was shot to death early Monday morning as he approached his small house located on Buckman street. Williams' twenty-year-old wife—mother of his two-year-old baby—is charged with the killing, and is held without bail awaiting preliminary hearing. Simon Wells, 54, of Fifteenth street and Tallyrand avenue, father of Mrs. Williams, who claims to have been asleep in his daughters' home at the time of the shooting, is also held in connection with the case. Feared violence. According to the police, Mrs. Williams admits the shooting, stating her husband left home Sunday night with the baby following their quarrel, and when she caw him returning Monday rgh Courier The favorite newspaper of men and women of thought. Published in Pittsburgh. Read everywhere. WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ?URDAY, MAY 7, 1921 TEN CENTS A COPY ?S DECISION OF JUDGE TERRELL will be given the surprise of her life when she visits the occupied region and finds German ladies entertaining at teas for the North African troops. She will even be invited to meet some of the gentlemen, in all probability. If she meets some of them, she may come home wiser for her trip as a propagandist. Her husband may awake to find himself not a member of Congress when the votes are counted at the next election. This wicked attack upon the black soldiers has been more than met by the ladies of France who have stated more than once that the black troops are demeaning themselves as gentlemen, and that not a single complaint has been registered against them by the Germans. This latest American delegate to F? The Supreme Court of the United states has sustained the original decision of Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, in the Hirsch-Block case, which establishes the constitutionality of the Ball Rent Act. The Hirsch-Block case had its beginning in the Municipal Court before Judge Robert H. Terrell, January 6, 1920, when Louis Hirsch entered suit against Julius Block to obtain possession of 919 F Street Northwest, the lease having expired under the Ball Act by Judge Terrell, and Hirsch appealed to the District Supreme Court. In that court counsel for the owner consented to a judgment in favor of the tenant in order that the case could be taken to the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals on June 2, 1920, declared the law unconstitutional and remanded the case to the lower court, A petition for a writ of certiorari from the decision of the Court of Appeals was denied by the United States Supreme Court, which said that DENTIST WINS SUIT AS "SPITE FENCE" I S DECLARED ILLEGAL Indianapolis, Ind., May 6.—"Spite fences" are not legally recognized in the city of Indianapolis or authorized by the statues of Indiana, Judge Moll decided Thursday when he ruled in favor of Dr. Lucius B. Merriwether, a dentist, 2255 North Capitol avenue, who had brought suit for $10,000 damages against Gabriel and Goldie Slutzky (white), 2257 North Capitol avenue, and Mrs. Mary C. Grooms, 2253 North Capitol avenue. The court awarded Merriwether damages in the sums of $150 from Mrs. Groomis and $350 from the Slutzkys. An order was also issued by Judge Moll directing the defendants to remove by noon the question asked to be decided was not final. The case was again tried by the District Supreme Court and judgement was entered in favor of the landlord. Block appealed, but the Court of Appeals again held the law unconstitutional. Black then took an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. ROUNDING OUT TWENTY YEARS SERVICE. Judge Terrell was first appointed by Theodore Roosevelt under whom he served two terms. He was reappointed by William H. Taft, serving four years, and again under Woodrow Wilson, this under three successive Presidents of the United States he has held the office of Judge of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, and when his present term expires (about one year hence) he shall have served twenty consecutive years. His record is one to be proud of, in as much as he has maintain d an enviable position in the esteem of his associates, as well as the general public. Seldom does a member of the colored race receive so great a measure of respect from both races at the same time. Judge Terrell receives the endorsement of the District of Columbia Bar Association, a proud distinction, not lightly given my this powerful association, and in this instance the first ever awarded to a man of our race. Dean of the Municipal Court. He is dean of the judges of the Municipal Court of which there are five, and the most cordial relations exist between them. Not only does the Judge possess the confidence of his fellows of the Bench and the Br Association, but the most exacting proof of his standing may be formed by the attitude of the lawyers practicing in his Court, among whom are numbered some of the most learned in the profession, and who unqualifiedly esteem him as learned in the law and just in its administration. The colored race, particularly the intellectual members who represent the best thought and the highest ideals, manifest their confidence in numerous ways, and by calling him to the lecture platform in all parts of the country to enlighten the people upon the leading questions of the day. In an official capacity, Judge Terrell has been called upon to unravel many knotty legal tangles and his opinion have been recognized as products of a deep and far-sighted knowledge of the law. There have been fewer appeals and reversals of cases decided in his Court than in the other Municipal Court, Probably the most notable of his decision is vividly recalled by the action of the Supreme Court of the United States in sustaining the Ball Rent act. REAPPOINTMENT REASSURED. Judge Terrell's reappointment seems assured. His high standing with Judiciary, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia irrespective of color, the public in general and he esteem in which he is held by President Harding, as well as when he was Senator from Ohio, are such that he will be well sponsored. Though a resident of the District of Columbia, the Judge is well known far and wide, as a staunch republican. The race may well be proud of this man, who has honored them by his hard work, his deep knowledge of the law and his well balanced sense of justice in its administration. Had his decision under the Ball Act been in force during the past year, tenants would not have been compelled to bare the burden of appeal in recent cases- a burden they were often too poor to bear. The people of this republic could feel a greater sense of security if the interpretation of the laws was in the hands of men like Robert H. Terrell. He is now receiving the congratulations of hundreds, high and low,, among whom are many of the most prominent in the profession of law. [*Mary Church Terrill*] Read By More Than The Pittsbu? 60,000 People of Intelligence and Money [*Please be as careful with this clipping as AMERICA'S GREATES? possible and return it Mary Church Terrill -*] VOL. XII. NO. 19 PITTSBURGH, PA. SAT? U.S. SUPREME COURT UPHOLD? Insanity Run Mad AGAIN WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH GERMAN-AMERICANS. We are not certain just what a German-American is, but if the reports we get are reliable, there are still 700,000 such beings running wild in the United states, and their propaganda is again let loose against black people,. But this time, the wicked attack is placed in the hands of a "beautiful" American woman, the wife of a Republican congressman from the State of Illinois. This kind of wickedness can not find a parallel in any other country, except in this curse-ridden land where anything against the black races find ready cultivation at the hands of some heartless whites. Reports come to us that one Mrs. Fred A. Britten, the wife of a man elected to our American congress, is now in France, awaiting an opportunity to see Marshall Foch to place in his hands a petitions signed by 700,000 German-Americans who are asking France to remove from the occupied territory the black troops stationed there to keep the Germans out of French territory. The whole scheme of the wife of the congressman is to help her husband hold his favor with the Pro-German element in Illinois; and she has been sent to France with propaganda against black troops as a sort of earnest of good faith in behalf of her husband. She is quoted as saying in France that all "niggers" are "niggers" and she goes as far as to say that all Americans are indignant because France elects to use North African troops against the Germans. When she undertakes to speak for the American people, she ought to have more than 700,000 Germans back of her statement. We have more than 700,000 people here who are neither German nor anti-French. The "beautiful" American lady Judge Terrell's Decision Upheld JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL Judge Terrell's Decision on Hirsch-Block Rent Case Upheld by Supreme Court (Special to the Pittsburgh Courier by Walter J. Singleton) Washington, D.C., May 6.—The decision upholding the Ball rent act was handed down in the Hirsch-Bloch test case, in which the District Supreme Court had previously upheld the decision of Judge Terrell, but which had been declared invalid by the District Court of Appeals. The law was enacted by Congress as a war-time measure to prevent rent profiteering and ejectment of tenants who refused to pay exorbitant rentals or those who could find no other dwelling. The test case went to the Supreme court of the United States on an appeal from the District Courts taken by Julius Block in a suit with Louis Hirsch. THE TERRELL BROADCAST PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE TERRELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Printed by the students in the Printing Department Washington, D. C. VOL. VIII No. 2 MARCH 1939 Price 2 cents Founders Day Exercises Held In connection with the celebration of the seventy- fifth year of education for colored people in the District of Columbia, the students of Terrell Junior High School presented Founders Day Excersises, March 16, 1939, at eight o'clock. We at Terrell have a reason to be proud as this building was the first high school built for our people in this city. It was ready for use in 1892 when it was called M Street High School. For the exercises, all living ex-principals of this school were present. Pupils of 8A1 are attempting to gather pictures of famous M Street graduates and other materials to display in the main hall of the building. Rowena Lark, 8A1. Honor Assembly On Friday, February 17, 1939 the Honor Society and section presidents gave an assembly program. The point is, we want more children in the Honor Society. A question that was asked was, "Why should I be an honor student?" The answer was "You should be an honor student to JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL For whom Terrell Junior High School is named. make your parents proud of you, to make your record equal to the highest, and to make your principal proud of you." Some girls and boys spoke on "Rules of Terrell" for the special benefit of the new 7A pupils, and told them that they would get along wonderfully if they obeyed them. James Colston had a message for the boys of Terrell, and told them even if they were poor the world was not against them. There was also put out a book called the Clarion. If you are a real Terrellite, you already have your copy. It costs five cents. Terrell Observes Negro History Week Special daily activities marked the celebration of Negro History Week at Terrell Junior High School. The first prominent speaker, was Atty. V. Lawson. Wednesday's guest speak, Mr. O'Hara Lanier, Assistant Director of N. Y. A., discussed prominent women of our group. Thursday was outstanding because Mr. R. Todd Duncan, Broadway star and musician, honored us with a recital and talk about his experiences in Europe. Friday, Dr. Sterling Brown Prof. of English at Howard University, told us about the Africans who revolted against slavery in this country and of the work done by Harriet Tubman in connection with the Underground Railroad. The entire week was inspiring and gave us many worthwhile things to discuss and be proud of. Bernice Douglass Citizenship Court 9B4 The pupils of section 9B4 organized a Merit System for the purpose of guiding and controlling our conduct and scholarship. At the beginning of each week, each pupil shall have a total of 100 2 TERRELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL EDITORIAL COLUMN THE TERRELL BROADCAST Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ John Lane Asst. Editor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Edith Bowman Social Editors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ John Franklin Bernice Douglas Rowena Larke Sports Editors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ William Sharpe James Ferguson Fun Editors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ James Wentz Eunice Diggs Sales Managers - Thornton Jones Virginia Nightengale Faculty Sponsors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A. M. Tyson H. J. Tanner, J. B. Middleton J. M. Montgomery VOL VIII - - No. 2 Price - - 2 cents MARCH 1939 Washington, D.C. The Value of Negro History Week To recall Negro History Week is exceeding by valuable, especially when it is called to the attention of school children. How much do you know about your race? Do you know how Frederick Douglass, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and many others had to strive for the education they received, and which in the future became very useful? During the period of slavery, the Negro struggled hard for his learning. He had to teach himself the things he learned; such as reading and writing, and sometimes he took the chance of stealing his master's books. Nowadays we have all our equipment brought to us and put into our hands; our books are new or in good condition; we have pencils, paper, erasers, and all other things we need. When we have Negro History Week, many worthwhile ideas are brought to us for the purpose of making us realize how easy it is for us to get an education. Not only do we talk about the famous Negroes of yesterday, but we have some of the famous Negroes of the present to come and speak to us in person. All of this is done so that we may understand the progress of the people in our race, and with the hope that we may become inspired to the extent that we shall prepare ourselves for a remarkable future. Factors of Success in a Vocation The vocational level which one may finally decide upon depends on several factors. They are education, inherited abilities, environment, opportunity, and work. The chief factor is of course, education. But education depends on several almost equally important factors. Two children from the same family may inherit different abilities. One may succeed in Mathematics, another in foreign languages. One may succeed in science laboratories, the other in a shop. Their success depends on proper training and choice of vocation. Continued on page three Orphans Because of Prejudice Why did I use the title that I did? I am going to tell you in my following statements. We are going to miss one of the greatest opportunities of all times, in my estimation. Do you know why? We are Negroes. Miss Marian Anderson, one of our own race and greatest colored singer of the 20th century, has been refused use of the Constitution Hall to give a concert because of her race. There is one person whom we should admire to the greatest extent. I refer to one Jascha Heifetz, a famed violinist. He is white, but my praise of him knows no bounds. I quote his words. "To think that this very hall in which I played has been barred to a great singer because of her race; it makes me feel very ashamed that there could be such a situation in Washington. To think that a person should be denied her constitutional rights. I protest as the entire musical profession protests, against such a sad and deplorable attitude." As you all know we can't do anything as students of Terrell Junior High School, but we can protest as Negroes. This incident should not only make us realize what we must fight for as Negroes, it should make us demand our constitutional rights. Continued on page three THE TERRELL BROADCAST A ERRELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL The Oldest High School Building for Colored Pupils in the District Of Columbia STUDENTS ADVOCATE HONOR ROLL I think the exercise, Thursday, very appropriate, interesting, and timely, because it showed advantages you could get over other pupils by making the honor roll. After all you aren't making the honor roll for anyone but yourself, and to make your parents and principal proud of you. If seventy-five percent of the student body would make the honor roll, our school would be classified as one of the highest percentage of honor students. I'm not only saying this to the 8th and 9th graders, but to the 7th graders, too. You are welcome to get on the honor roll. It's yours as well is ours. Begin now, and let's see how many new students we can have on the honor roll list. I'm sure you'll be proud of yourself. If you don't know what the honor roll means, ask your teacher to explain it to you. I am sure she will be glad to do so, for she wants to see you succeed. William Harrison, 7B3 ----- HOME ROOM DISCUSSIONS During the week of February 13, section 9B-3 had several interesting discussions on the topic "Knowing Yourself and Others." The first talk concerning the advantages resulting from educational training, stressing the ability to adjust one's self to people. The following discussions were concerned with the contributions of various persons whose knowledge and experiments make these adjustments easier. Such persons as the psychologist, the the physiologist, the bacteriologist, etc. were mentioned, and their contributions were given. Miss H. J. Tanner is section teacher. TERRELL PUBLISHES HANDBOOK on Friday, February 17, the students of Terrell received copies of the Clarion, a handbook containing information of interest to all students of the school. This book will not only aid new pupils to make adjustments but will also further cooperation between the pupils and the school and will act as a guide to parents. The Clarion contains building rules, a building directory, conduct hints, songs, yells, and other interesting features. The price is five cents per copy. It was compiled by Miss H.J. Tanner and the boys of section 8B3 during the home room periods in the spring of 1938. The printing of the book was directed by J.M. Montgomery, printing instructor at Terrell. If you are a real Terrellite, you already have your copy of the Clarion. TERRELL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT COUNCIL MEETS The assembly program on Thursday, February 16, was presented by the Terrell Student Council. Words of welcome to the 7A's were expressed by Hattie Montague, pres.; Ruth Walker, vice-president; Virginia Shuford, secretary; and Bernice Byrd, treasurer. Rufus Williams read a brief summary of activities in the Student Council since September. Thomasine Fountain read some of the most important building rules and regulations. Norma Wentz and Mary Earle talked about the Honor Society. James Colston gave a special message to boys working hard to make the honor society. He ended his talk with Edgar A. Guest's poem, "The World is Against Me". Musical selections were rendered by Phyllis Pace, Doris Clarke, Thelma Garret, Evelyn Rose, and Virginia Shuford. Mrs. Johnson sponsors this organization. PLEDGE I will never bring disgrace to this school by any act of dishonesty or discourtesy. I will strive to uphold its ideals and obey its laws both singly and together. I will always help to keep my section's record satisfactory. Thus in all these ways I will try to make this school greater and better than it was before I came here. Section 7A1, Mrs. Hillman SECTION 7B1 The "Societas Romana" held its weekly meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The following officers were elected: Violet Duckett, pres. dent; Estelle Clayton, vice-pres.; Cecelia Ross, secy.; and Holliday Whisonant, treasurer. The first scene of the play, "Pyramus and Thisbe," was rehearsed. After the rehearsal, several plans were made for subsequent meetings. Rudolph Robinson, 7B1 WE THE CHAMPS Guess what! Girls, who graduated from Terrell, won the championship basketball game. These girls are students of Dunbar now. They played five games, and won them. Players were Doris Hatcher, Grace Ross, Mildred Mercer, Margaret Jefferson, Rachel Janifer, and Ethel Laney. Ethel Laney. GOSSIP COLMN Greetings, sections, let's gossipate. It isn't too late to break that date And find yourself another mate B. Douglas spends most of her recess hour with her ideal F. Vaughn. Boy, what a romance! J. Colston really seems to go for the Spanish, especially the Spanish girls. As the song goes "Hold Tight." Will it seems as if H. Pleasant is doing so with F. Bowe. SO YOU SAY TERRELL IS OLD Terrell seemed old until Mr. Todd Duncan told us about the school in London, England, over 300 years old, which his son, Charles, attended. Terrell is just a youngster. Some folks should stay out of Morgan Street and should go home from school as they have been told. Enough said! Note to J. Lane: R. Walker is becoming interested in your presence, better watch out because this is worth looking into. T. Carter, A. Jackson and J. Franklin don't mind missing their lunch at recess, when they have the opportunity to take the lovely senior pictures. L. Sator seems to be attracted to a lovely young lady in section 9B1. Could this attraction be E. Bowman? H. W. makes a hobby of getting girls' telephone numbers. W.B. should do his studies as well as he handles a basketball. E.W. was elected news reporter because he's so snoopy. It seems that the love affair or friendship of H. P. and F. B. has gone on the rocks. From 7b3 there were two boys taken into the honor socity; they were John Stradford and John Agnew. Well this is all until next month when I will have news on some other Terrell-lites. Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest height. ---Carlyle THE TERRELL BROADCAST Success in Vocations Continued from page two Some boys and girls do not have enough reasoning power that is required for the work in medical school. They might succeed in journalism, which is also a profession. Other students do not have the ability required for a college preparatory course in high school, no matter how hard they might work. Nearly all of these can be successful on the skilled level in one of the five vocational fields, but the abilities they inherit play an important part. Environment of the home, vocational conditions, and your community are other factors which have much to do with the success of your vocation. Many people have started in an environment of poverty and low training level. In spite of this, through persistence in seeking better training they have risen to higher levels in their chosen vocations. The world is full of such self made men and women. Opportunity is also an important factor in determining vocational success. Evening schools, and many other helpful agencies are proving means for people to advance from the "hit-and-miss" way of doing things to the sientific stage of accomplishment. Even though you cannot continue in school far as you like, you still have the opportunity to get ahead by studying your job and the job still higher than yours. In this way you can create your own career, but the level you attain in your chosen vocation depends to a great degree upon your own ambition, training, and effort. Therefore, whatever you decide to be, aim to be the best. Edith Bowman Citizenship Court Continued from page 1 merits. These merits may be lost by the violation of laws which are selected and approved by the class. In cases where the class can't come to a decision, the verdict is left to our section teacher. Before any law is ratified, it must be approved by at least two-thirds vote of the class. A student may be prosecuted if he violates the following laws and is found guilty. 1. Dismissal from class. 2. Name found on conduct sheet. 3. Reprimanded by a teacher. 4. Talking out in class or court. 5. Impudence to any teacher. 6. Disorder while getting on line or in devotion. 7. Chewing gum, eating in class 8. Leaving paper on floor or desk. 9. Playing with typewriters. 10. Using profane language. 11. Disorder while passing in line. 12. Absence without a written excuse. 13. Tardiness. 14. Leaving building grounds wihtout permission. 15. Cutting classes. 16. Unpreparedness in class. 17. "F" on report card. 18. Calling out in class. The officers consist of a judge who presides at court; a prosecuting attorney who prosecutes charges made by the guardians to the class; four guardians who re- cord and report all violation of rules, two clerks to keep a record Marian Anderson Fellow Terrellites, Attention Have you read about the ban on Marian Anderson, the world's greatest contralto? If you have not, then I will relate the predicament. Because of her complexion, she has been barred from Constitution Hall by the D.A.R. This unhappy incident dramatized the need of a Federal municipal auditorium under the jurisdiction of the public. The United States Government collect taxes; Negroes and white taxpayers simultaneously, who put no mark of identification on their hard earned dollars? Quoting Col. West Hamilton who says, "The Board of Education has been given an opportunity to say without subterfuge that it refuses its facilities to one of the greatest artists of t he age!" Your Terrell correspondent says: "The entire predicament is a devasting reflection on so called 'Democracy' " John Franklin 9B1 of awards and losses, and a jury composed of the entire class who after hearing evidence, vote by a secret ballot, "guilty or not guilty.' The class has approved of the following students as officers. James Wentz, Prosecuting Attorney Ethel Johnson, Francis Skipwith, Charles Johnson, and William Powell, Guardians. John Lane, Court Clerk. Mary Nightengale, Court Clerk A student with the record of 100 points is called a gold star Continued on page four 4 THE TERRELL BROADCAST LIBRARY CLUB The pupils of 8A1 are occupying their time during the seventh hour by mounting pictures for our Terrell library. We are doing this for your benefit. During study periods or any other spare time you are cordially invited to the library to see these pictures. Terrell has been for sometime building it's library for the use of it's students. We thought it best, with the help of our teacher, to continue doing so, and so far we have been successful. Beginning now, and in the future we expect to increase the amount. You will find pictures pertaining to all of your junior high school studies. We hope you will take advantage of this splendid opportunity, and that you enjoy using them as well as we have enjoyed making them possible for your use. Evelyn Alexander 8A1 HEALTH ASSEMBLIES At one of our girls assemblies We had a remarkable speaker, Dr. Paul Carnely, who gave us an enlightening talk on tuberculosis and how to prevent it. He first gave us some signs of it, and if any of these signs come to you or your relatives or friends, see a doctor at once. 1. Spitting blood. 2. A bad cold which lingers for 2 or 3 weeks 3. When you are at play and get exhausted and tired out quicker than usual. 4. Night sweats. You are to be the men and women of tomorrow, and if you get sick and down in bed or die, who will run the race for you? Check on your self and your health. See that you are 100 per in the fight for life. Rowena Lark, 8A1 GITIZENSHIP COURT From Page 3 citizen. The following pupils have so far succeeded in keeping a gold star citizenship record; Francis Skipwith, Marie Wesley, and William Powell. A student with a record of 95 points is called a silver star citizen, 90 points a blue star citizen, 85 points a green star citizen, 80 points a red star or dangerous citizen. James Wentz 9B4 ORPHANS BECAUSE OF PREDJUDICE Continued from page 1 In closing this message to my dear classmates and friends of Terrell, I say, we are the future generation; the upcoming business men and women of tomorrow. We must go on! Bernadette Miles, 9B4 9B4 VICTORS The 9B4 basketball team, with William Powell captain, enjoyed a smashing victory over 9B1, Wednesday, February 1. However, it was no walk away. At times the excitement was high, for the score of one side would be equalled by that of the other. Finally the game ended with 9B4 victors, topping the score of 6-4. It was a tough game, but well worth the winning. The points were made by James Wentz, John Lane, and William Laney, 9B4; while the points made for 9B1 were all made by James Ferguson. At present 9B4 is the only undefeated team in the building. William Laney A Winner never quits, A Quitter never wins. MY FIRST IDEA OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL On entering the Terrell Junior High school there were many changes in the routine of work. One of these changes was moving from one class to other classes for recitations. This was quite different from having one teacher to teach every subject; this way however appeals to me. To have a locker to put my books in, was another advantage that I did not have in the elementary grades. I was very astonished when heard we could not go home at lunch time, but [?] must remain at school and patronize the cafeteria. It is a great deal of fun getting dressed for Physical Education and then to go to the gymnasium to take part in the many games the teacher has in store for me when it is time for this subject I am always anxious to go to this recitation where I can romp and play in a healthful atmosphere. Doris Washington, 7A1 BASKETBALL During the week of February 13, the boys of Terrell played several inter-sectional basketbal games. In the first game 8B3 defeated 8B1, 13-0; the second game was won by 9A4, defeating 9A1 by a score of 6-4. In the third game, 9B-3 was able to defeat 9B-1. The final game was played by 9B1 and 9B3, with 9B 1 as the winner. John Simpson, 9B3 [????] June 4-1915 Judge Robert H. Terrell at Downingtown Commencement. Judge Robert H. Terrell delivered the commencement address for the Downingtown Industrial School in Pennsylvania. The commencement exercises were held at Cherry Street Baptist Church, in Philadelphia, on Wednesday night, May 26, 1915. 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