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to spend his dollars when earned where and when he pleases. An equal right to have a voice in laws that govern him and for which laws he has shed his blood freely. It is impossible for a house to stand erect and lasting when the foundation is unstable. It is utterly impossible for America to be a true democracy, when by unconstitutional acts, the minority rules the majority, when over twelve (12) millions of her most loyal citizens are denied the rights of citizenship. To help change this condition let us live in the today; yesterday is past. Let us band together in a new era ; lt't us he useful to each other, progressive, starting more busi nesses, even small ones (the oak was once an acorn). Let us help conserve the financial resources of our race and help thus in the economic independence which will win a place quicker than in any other way. One of our greatest needs today is more capital to achieve the success due us, and to cope with the keen competition of the business world. Capital knows no color line, thrift and success will win a place in business. Successful co-operative stores, chains of them, steam laundries, our own hotels, shops of all kinds. Co-operation and organization will bring this about. Remember, men of my race, that if you can be trusted janitors and servants, in many cases having complete charge of the places where you are employed; if you can give satisfaction in menial positions, be as sured that as owners and proprietors of these same businesses you can also give satis faction. Sooner or later, more and better opportunities will present themselves and you will find that service to yourselves first, to your country next, will command lasting respect. To the women of my race, let me beg you, as mothers and builders of home, to stop teaching our children to be ashamed of their slave foreparents. Rather should we teach them pride in the sterling worth of them, let them know that their honesty, faithful ness to their masters, and the trust placed in them as a whole, was never betrayed and this, more than any other trait, had helped make us the loyal lovers of our America regardless of the cruel changes of the past years. Teach our boys and girls to have the same confidence in their parents and their country. Do not let them leave school the first time they think they want more than you call give them. The higher edu cation makes us better citizens, fits us for any position that is offered, finds us always ready for any call made. The response and efficiency shown by all those of us chosen for business and positions of trust during the recent war proves this. We were given another opportunity to prove our loyalty, and we were found ready and worthy. Our men were sent over seas over the protest of those high in authority; so much criticism had been made, so much doubt expressed, that even our friends were anxious to see whether we would make good. It was a test indeed, but if any doubt remained after the glorious conduct of our men, after the hero ism of whole companies, of individuals and men that we handicapped by lack of good arms and ammunition, using, even pickaxes and cook kettles to rout the enemy around, the doubt has been overcome. We must join our National bodies, lend our aid and support to these mouthpieces of our race. The N. A. A. C. P. with only 00.000 members and 10,000 of those whites, should have enrolled every man and woman of thinking- age. The day the armistice was signed a Negro was lynched in Ala bama. The day President Wilson landed in Brest to help make the world safe and a fit place to live in, one of our race men was burned on the public square in Texas, and while they sat around the peace table, a black man was burned in Georgia. I could give you case after case, but suffice it to tell you that we have had an average of two lynchings a week since the Civil War. Now, if all of our race would become members of our National bodies, don't you realize that twelve millions of united people, standing together like the Kock of Gibralter, would change this state of affairs. Try it and see. Now thai we see the silent, ominous revolu tion in this country, let us remember how seriously it concerns us. and become organ ized to seek out the remedy and help apply it. and the sooner the better for us. Our club work in this country has in the past four years, increased greatly in num bers. From state to stale our work is being parried on. until now We have 42 slates en rolled in our National, from 50,000 women in 1913 to over 300,000 in 1918. Property owned now. partial figures and values in National Report nearly one-half million dol lars. Money raised for charity in 1!)1(> to 1!)1S-1!>1!) is over $400,000. Money used for schools, support of children's homes, day nurseries, reformatories and old people's homes, etc., is over two-thirds millions of dollars. SPECIAL WORK AS GIVEN ME FROM; GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF AG- RICULTURE AND STATE COLLEGES IN SOUTHERN STATES: Clubs enrolled 50,095 girls. Girls take the same four year course of study as given white girls; are taught gar dening, sewing, breadmaking, cooking, care of poultry, and the special work on canning. In fifteen Southern states in 1918 these Colored Girls' Clubs put up from garden plots of their own, goods worth $70,933.80 in cans; dried produce to the amount of 40,134 pounds of vegetables and 421,168 pounds of fruit, valued at $04,1)41.40. Besides these products of their own, as put up, they conserved .$4(5,100.45 worth of fruit and other products. The total value of work as done by our own girls during 1918 in these 15 Southern states was $241,401.85. Hurrah!! We are thankful indeed that our women are not asleep; that we are doing things worth while, for it is no small thing to work and carry on to success, in spite of all the opposing forces, these worthy things that our club women are doing daily, for love of the work and for our boys and girls, the future men and women of our race, for it is true that a great work like this in which we are engaged, demands a great sacrifice and you people that are not capable of a great sacrifice are not capable of doing great work, for the first and fundamental step in the reconstruction of society is for everyone in a position of leadership to recog nize this universal, spiritual awakening and to make it the basis of every attempt at social betterment. It is useless for us to talk and bewail the conditions and the old state of affairs. They are gone forever and the world is moving forward, improving as it moves, and we as a race must move with the tide or be swept away into oblivion. Co operation and loyalty will accomplish every thing. Patronize our own race in every in dustry which they promote. Patronize every t*ace leader that comes to your locality no matter what the local conditions are, and realize that in Union there is strength, and that you will benefit from the message brought you. Be like sponges, absorbing every good thought that you can get. and know that you can do so much more to help your own locality if you will catch the clear vision and magnitude of this great work in which we are engaged. Let US as club wo men never forget our mottos: "Lifting as we (limb," and "Today is ours for United Service." Know that these mottos mean faith in each other, trust in our Redeemer that has enabled US to make of our race what it is today and let us further emulate His example by doing good to all, help the struggling members of our race that cannot help themselves. Remember the cry of our women in these words: "Out of the wildness. out of the night, Has the black woman crawled into the light, Beaten by lashes, bound by chains, A beast of burden, but with heart and brains. She has come thro' sorrow and need and woe, And the cry of her heart is, to know, to know. Red with anguish her way has been, This suffering woman with dusky skin For centuries fettered and bound to earth, Slow her (infolding to freedom's birth: Slow her rising from burden and ban To till the stature of normal woman. Coming thro' valleys of black despair, She has borne what no white "woman ever could bear And the rry of her heart is to higher go." PURELY PERSONAL Mr. Thomas Jefferson of Everett at tend ed the St. John's Day ceremonies at the Grace Presbyterian church last Sunday and was one of the speakers of the occasion. Mi. Ralph Jones entertained at the Y. M. C. A. last Monday evening with Miss Mabel Bird as honored guest. Miss Rosman Williams, who has been visiting in the city for the past two weeks, left for her home in Roslyn last Monday morning, where she will remain but a short time, when she will leave for Chicago, where she will matriculate in a university there. Mass Mabel Turner and Mr. George Con way were married last Saturday evening at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Turner, 1735 Twenty-fifth avenue, surrounded by a host of admiring friends. Turner is not quite, but al most a native daughter. After a long and painful illness Mrs. Jennie (Mark, who lias been a resident of Seattle for the pasi thirty years, passed to her reward last Wednesday evening. No one in the city among those with whom she mingled was more widely or more favorably known than she and her death will he mourned by a host of friends and acquaint ances. She was in business in Seattle for a number of years. Mrs. John T. Gayton and her daughter, Miss Louise, after an absence of some six teen days a 1 Firlands, are at home again, but little the* worse for ware on account of their smallpox experience. Rev. Reynolds of Portland. Oregon, who was in the Sound country for some ten days, returned to his home last Tuesday. Dr. 1). T. Cnrdwell was in Everett' last Thursday evening, a guest of the Federation of Women's Clubs of Washington. Major Sherwood of Si. Paul, was a guest at the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. I). Carter for a few days the past week, lie was re turning from Arizona whither he went to set up a Shriners' Lodge. The Seattle Branch of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People Avill give fin all-day picnic and even ing dance ;it Fbrtnna Park, Wednesday, August 4tli, to which the general public is invited to partciipate. Following the sorrowful exhibition of the Alhambra Giants against the Renton Cubs in Renton, Sunday, has caused the manager to start a general shake up. As a result Charlie Tanner lias been secured as a. catcher for the aggregation. The manager states that after the game on June 27th wild the Micado Eagles, an other shake up will occur if the changes do not bring results. The new catcher may be seen in action next Sunday a! Liberty Park. (There is logic in your madness Mr Banks.) The Alpha Tennis Club is uivinu' a hike Sunday morning. Starting ai 23rd and Madison at 6:30 o'clock they will go to Seward Park. They are furnishing all food asking only that you bring yourself. The Self Improvement Girls' Club had many strangers as guests a 1 their dance last Monday night. These strangers are stop. ping over on their way to Portland. -Miss Mable Byrd left last Wednesday morning for her home in Portland to spend the summer vacation. She was attending the University of Washington last winter. Mr. Crossway, a student of the University of .Minnesota, is spending a few days in the city. He is on his way to Portland to at tend the Shriner'a convention. Dame Rumor has it and lias had it for some time, that Mrs. Isabel Washington will in a few months become Mrs. A. C. Oropp. (If you want to keep a secret, toll it to a friend.)