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Any erroneous reflection upon the character, etnndlnir or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which may appear in the columns of The Dallas Express will be gladly cor rected npoa lis being brought to the attention of the publishers. THE DALLAS BXPRESS hat never hoisted the whltt feather, neither hat it been dit' traced by the fillow ttreah. It it net afflicted with the flannel mouth. It it a plain, every day, tensible, conservative newspa per, which trimt no sail to catch the pas tint breeze; fliet n doubtful flat: It profeeset a patriotism at broad as our country., lit love of even hand ed justice covert all the terri tory occupied by the human race. This it pretty high found, but wo live on it and aro pros perinf. Boys of the press come up and stand with us. This fronud It holy. W. E. KING. STRIKES AKD STRIKERS. To the unbiased observer of the general trend of the capital and labor struggle which seems to be growing In intensity as time goes on, there is evident a constantly growing ten dency toward Mobism and a decline In the desire to settle peacably such difficulties ag may arise. It would seem that America, in all of its economic phrases was gradually changing from orderly to U'sordenv proceeuure. The Mines strike and the Herrin horror, now tne rail strike and lta snipers battles, tar parties and gang attacks are proof of the fact that surety tne mina of tne mob is grow ing in power in America. - And in such a growth may be si tu the ere "stable result dettroneu uiitnonty it it shouid ever tiappeu tlir.t the workers teellng, theniseiveb goaded beyonu endurance, unite to test out tne eiilcacy of tins, their so far, most powerrul weapon. It now seems that in the near future America stanas liable to suf fer from her laxness in controlling mob tendencies. Euch a ttme not pleasant to contemplate, will, ahoulu it come, be the natural result of tbt failure, during all of the years that have passou, of those in charge 01 the government of the footle, to set tneir laces bard . again -t. ever instance ii msregard tor law anu constituted authority. The Herrin tragedy In which, men seeking only to make a. living toi themselves and tlieir famines were chained together, ehot, butchered, tortured ana aoue to death even b women tau cmiuren, Mar be but a natural sequence to Via growth of the spirit which for years in the South has made right tha malnilnqr and roasting of human beings, tne rap. 01 their wo-nen an the destruction of tneir hoiucR and property. Verily it !s true that "Whatsoever a man eoeih, i ..at slit U he also reap." The recent strikes ..'h'.ch hair para lyzed too nation and which with ever In reaslng frequency strike at the very vitalg of jur economic life show no signs of cessation. They can show none for the spirit of Mutual love and the desire foi understanding based upon a desire for the Mutual wellbeing of both thirties concerned seems to be strikingly absent. It Is absent. And its continued failure to make Its apfiearance In a inannev strong enough to be felt will be a guarantee of the growth of enmity and a constantly lncreas- iin, danger of cataiysmlc revolt wuici will tbrca'en Uie nat n Itself. .More charity is needed. More love iinii;', be uliown for where these realy exist there is pe.'ce based upon understanding- and ail Men 1 ro.ipei fu the atmosphere i" ' ..Jstice which ' tlioy create. It i v--i-ll to a.'k God foi' what we v. fir.t Ij U i( is better to ask for eon race l" bp; It and n ,;o tnd f t i p'ur he hs placed it within )' ::l: ; i us. t-3 -S LEADERS WHO Much criticism is the usual lead us aid as a general rule, of them it is true that they are sel dom ever rated at their true value by those among whom they labor. N doubt much of this criticism is unjust a3 criticism us- I ii.. J . A..nr.MAl1i, viiiKI?, ifiA ia nalla tn aririnna nn friA narr rf lendpra whirr. Reeminc-.v which will call to their attention their remissness along various lines. , Of this sort is the instance which we have in mind of a lead er who, as the one in charge of a building program for his insti tution, secured the services of a Negro architect, secured his plans, used his time extensively without pay or entering into a con tract with him, and without giving him any notice whatever plac ed another artisan of the opposite race in charge of the work either using the former's plans or having had the latter engaged in drawing plans at the same time that the plans of the former were under consideration. No one can object to being beaten in fair competion. No blame can attach to the person who looks to his own in terest first by saving all of the money possible. But blame does and rightly does fall upon that man or insti tution which denies to. those of its field in which to compete. The time has come in our lives when solidarity and co-opera tion are vitally necessary to our well-being and success. The signs of the times point unfailingly to a day not far distant, when every opportunity which our ordinary lives offer for employing those of our own who have been trained to satisfy our wants, must be offered to them and every means used to so guarantee them. Wise leaders have already seen the approach of this day and conducted their affairs accordingly. Such men are real leaders. Others have seen the condition no less plainly but, blinded by selfishness, egotism, love of power acteristics they have refused to ple by doing the just and highly Leaders such as these are our those who stab us in the most the Very progress in which they Any Negro who occupies a fair to his own people should be repudiated ; should be taken down; should be banished from the esteem of his humblest mem ber and shunned as a viper for such he really is. Those who by force of example do not bear witness to their professed racial pride should be they are. We cry for opportunity. We We are continually begging for a realize that we have opportunity. We have chance enough to in crease our own well being but we blindly overlook our chances while begging for what another tion to his own welfare has obtained. We have architects. We erect architects not be given an equal for these contracts? And what is true of our architects could De true no less of our grocers, tailors, shoe dealers, furniture dealers, etc, if only we could apply the common sense which has made other races successful to our own affairs. Our leaders must really lead in these things. Their example is more powerful than their preachments in this regard. Their fail ure to embrace every opportunity to teach their followers that in co-operation alone lies our chance for success will constitute a hin drance to our progress. We already face, handicaps' enough from without. We need none furnished by our own hands. POLITICS AND News dispatches of recent date tell of the favorable reporting to the Senate of the Dyer AntHynching Bill. To Senator Lodge goes the credit for the achievment. The measure, as reported, is not quite so directly stringent as when it came from the House. It provides that if local authorities fail to prosecute cases of mob violence or lynching, then the fed eral court of the district steps in. But the jurisdiction is only transfered to the federal court when "it is proven beyond a rea sonable doubt that equal protection of the law has been denied the citizens of the community in question, by the local courts." The bill also provides that any officer who fails to make all reasonable efforts to protect the life of a person from mob vio lence shall be liable to imprisonment and a fine of $500Qi. If the oificer conspires with others in the lynching, he may be sent to jail for life. The bill retains the original section, which provided that any county in which a person is put to death by a mob shall forfeit $10,000, this sum to be paid to the family or dependents of the victim, or otherwise into the federal treasury. In connection with this fine of $10,000 the Senate committee adopted an amendment, however, stating that it must be proven that officers of the State or county "neglected to proceed with due diligence to apprehend and prosecute the participants in the mob." Though the changed phrasing has done much to weaken the bill its favorable report means much. It gives chance for the Su preme Court itself to decided upon its constitutionality and re lieves Congress itself from that task. In thus removing from Congress the responsibility for declar ing the bill unconstitutional a changed state of public mind may be expected, at least from Negro voters in many states who had begun to feel that the whole scheme as fostered by the G. O. P. leaders had been one of rhicanery aimed at vote getting purely and simply. It may be true that tho effectiveness of the bill, now that it has been changed win no! be so great and it still may be thus manipulated as a vote getter but certain? v the means used have a greater degree of "smoothness" to recommend them. A nd, wc who suffer most from the lynching evil are welcom ing a iy attempts at its check political or otherwise, though it seems extremely unfortunate that vr. civilizeJ and enlightened America this should be so. It would seem that the fact that in six months alone thirty human beings were done to death by mobs, tn say noting of the thousands of ouch deaths heretofore record' d, would be cause enough for concerted action on the part of every right thinking citizen to end it. Politics should play no part in it. Patriotism love of law- -courage to do right shouH so inspire Americans that legislation state or federal would be forth coming In the interest of civiliza tion as opposed to barbarism in America. But this is not so. Politics maes right and votes make might. Negroes in pivotal states have votes. The G. O. P. needs them. An emasculated Dyer Bill goes to the Senate. The revolt of Negro voters caused it. Soon it may be generally agreed that support of parties should not be blindly given. The favorable report of the Dyer bill even though less ef fective seems to prove it. A peoples great st asset is confidence in their own ability to achieve and loyalty enough to follow the course which most sure ly will result in their success whatever the sacrifice necessary. Tho public opening of th3 home of Frederick Douglas, restor cd awl beautified by the Negro Womens.' clubs of America will mark ti.e beginnirg of a significant epoch in Nejro American Iifr. We are learning to honor ard appreciate our own heroes. Lcve for them and respect for their achievements will surely lead to ricrwsed ambition on the part of Coming generations to emu late them ccoure in the knowledge tliat there is a ch.mce to at tain excellence, ' , ... KINDER Ui Dortion of those who attempt to iustifies criticism of the sort own kind and persuasion a fair and other such unworthy char look to the interest of their peo necessary thing. bitterest enemies. They are deadly place and make impossible by their actions should lead. position of prominence who is not classed as hypocrites for such bemoan our lack of opportunity. chance. Yet seldom ever do we by dint of sacrifice and applica buildines. Why should our own chance at competing with others LYNCHING. Jill THE (ill EAT BOOTLEGGER. Occasionaly there comes gre.it comic moments even In government affairs. Every once in a while these moments flash up in Congress and something happens on the floor of the Senate or the house which brings a hearty laugh or at least a smile to the whole country. There are days when the "Congres ional Record" contains a bit of wit and humor which brighter or funnier than most of the things that can be found In the proffessional comic publi cations. One must have a very slight sense of humor not to have relished the Irony of the situation which was caused by August A. Busch, President of the Anheuser-Buch Company of St. Louis, charging the United States Govern ment with being the greatest bootlegger In the world. The charge made by Mr. Busch has sent to Preident Harding was that the vessels operated by the United States Shipping Board sold liquor outside the three mile limit. Mr. Busch, in his letter to the President, filed exhibits of wine lists con taining names of wine and liquors and their prices. Charlman Lasker of the Shipping Board immediately sprung to the defense of that body. Mr. Lasker not only defended the right of the United States passenger vessels to sell liquor outside the three mile limit but he accuses Mr. Bunch's action as being "thoroughly selfish, and In turn charged him with not "coming before the bar of public opinion with clean hands." It appears to us that Charlman Lasker's defense of the right to sell whis key on government ships, as well as his counter attack charging Mr. Busch with turpitude, are both very weak and very lame. In bolstering up the right to sell whiskey on these ships Mr. Lasker declared, "So long as Great Brltlan, France, Germany, Japan and other maritime nations contiue to serve liquors to American passengers, I am ashamed to state that my experience leads me to believe there is a sufficient number of Americans without proper pride in their flag: to divert their trade to a foreign flag to the extent that the competition would be from a profit making standpoint very heavily against the American ship." In above words of the chairman of not at all a very flattering estimate of who crosses the Atlantic Here we have a picture of thousands of American tourists booking their passage to Europe and not caring one lota, whether they sail under the Stars and Stripes or not so long as they salt where there Is plenty of liquor which they can buy. Indeed, we see the United States reduced to the necessity of placing such supplies of liquors upon its own ships In order to get any cutomcrs at all. The fact stated by chairman Lasker liquor, would be put out of business by mentary on the sincerity of the great constitution in order to have complete But Chairman Lasker's attack on Mr. of the Shipping Board. In writing to Mr. Busch he said, "I believe you to be thoroughly selflBh and that you are acting In the hope of creating a public revolt against prohibition so that you may again revive the sale of your liquors utterly regardless of how you might hurt the American merchant marine in your effort to create a situation to' benefit your brewery. And moe aside still from the real point at Issue, Mr. Lasker added, "It Is, of course, notorious, that the Adolphus Busch who founded your family fr many years has maintained a castle In Germany." your family fo many years has maintained a castle In Germany." It did nt require much keeness of Intelect on the part of Mr. Busch to shoot both Mr. Lasker's defensive and his offensive full of holes, and he did so In a letter which was both logical and witty, and did it so well that we quote the three following paragraphs: "On our bohalf, I admit tha correctness of your charge that we are selfish in that we seek to again have the lawful right to manufacture beer. If this Is selfishness, let it go at that. We, in that respect at leaBt, have the Shipping Board as an example. The Shipping Board desires to maintain the value as a going business of the Governments investment in merchant ships, while we are selfish in hoping that our Investment of many millions may be saved through a restoration of the lawful rights to partake of wholesome beer. 1 "Yon suggest that we do not come to the bar of public opinion with clean hands. It has cost us millions of dollars to keep them clean, and we remind you that we have in this corespondence repeated our demand for a Congressional Investigation. The tempeature 1 my office is well above ninety, and the law pro hibits, me from making nere In America a glass of wholesome beer, such as my grandfather, Adolphus Busch, made famous over the world as an American product Yet as I write I contemplate the Shipping Board approving vouchers for" the disbursement of American Government money from the Teasury In payment for German and British beers and wines to be sold by our Govenment at a profit. The prospect does not, I assure you, tend to lower the temperature." ihe wbolesltuatlon is a ludrlcrous grows out of what is realy a serious scenes In Shakespearian tragedies. I United States spending millions upon millions of dollars to enforce the Vol ! stead Act throughout the length and breadth of the land and yet that same government selling wines and whiskies on Its own ships in order to make a few hundred thousand dollars profit which will enable it to compete with the ships of other nations. It is realy absurd and as Mr. Busch points out, a still greater absurdity lies In the fact that the goern ment Is not in any sense living up to the theory of protection and thereby patronizing home industries. The leers and wines and liquors which it sells on Us ships it purchases from foreign manufacturers. The government will need a stronger defe-.se than Chritsian Lasker has thus far put up.. It will require the brain of none less than Elihu Root to get it out of its awkard posidon. For the government to spend millions of dollars to enforce prohibition on land and then turn bootlegger to make a few hundred thousand dollars on lta own sMps at sea i the biggest Joke to which the Eighteenth Amendment has yet been subjected. New York Age. SLAVERY The Leader recently ook occasion to call attent'on to a remarkable article just published In which a native of Georgia frankly confessed that slavery has never been abollsh'rtl in that state. The external form of the slavery of Negroes has been modified, it vas admitted, but the condition Is none less than real because of the change. .. j A few days ago. at the conference of the Nrtlonal Association Ut the ! Advancement of Colored Peop'e, a Negro preacher, pastor of a large Negro congregation at Atlanta, described to the conference the operation of half-dozen "underground railway stations" in his city. The "underground' route between tte sUv: plantations of the souta and the free states of the north, and even Canada, was an established Institution. Some of the leading families of Allcgheney county were active In the operation. Their descendants are proud of this connection with the transportation of runaway sluves. . The differece between the old and new "underground" is that the "railway" In the years immediately proceeding the Civil war the work was exclusively In tho hands of white men. women and children; today the rescue of Georgia's slaves is solely the work of Negroes. But perhaps the real suprlse is not that the racial brothers and sisters of the slaves risk life and liberty in this daring work, but that It is necessary almost 60 years after clavery hr.s been abolished. Of coure, It is culled peonage now, but that is imat erial. It Is not the name, but tho condition, that counts. And the common truth Is that the slavery in the form of peonage la affective In Georgia as ever was the old-fashioned peonage 'frankly called slavery. . Thin is one of the facts we should not dwell upon too long or too stressfully In our lessons on Americanization to foreign-born residents. They might get a false notion of what is freedom and law and constitution in America. " ' Pittsburg Leader. , ROBERT "Just a Black .Man" We should praise a fine quality in the Devil. And that la no appoiogy for praising one of the .many fine quaiit!r in r.obert Kussa Moton, for be has no resemblance whatever to the Devil. But ho is a good example of the man whose super-fine qualities are likely to be sometimes dis credited simply because somebody disagrees with him about something else. All men who attain any .position above the ordinary suffer this advantage in some degree. . of the Shipping Board we have what Is the patriotism of the average American that these ships, unless they sold the foreign ships Is a curious com nation which so lately amended its prohibition. Busch is fully as lame as his defense " " one, and it is more so because it matter. It Is much like the comedy Here we have the Government of the 15 GEORGIA. RUSSA M0T05. We like to talk about people when we can say fine things about them. We hate to talk about them when we can't. We could talk much abont Dr. Moton, for we know him well and esteem his fin qualities. One of the best of these Is what we might cal his GROUPE-CONCSCIOUSNESS. He feela that he Is one of the people whom he calls "my people." He Is desirous that whatever good Is in him may be placed on the credit side of his people's account. This Is Illustrated by his recent experience In the streets of New York City. He reached out his strong black arm and saved a white woman from the danger of being run over by a taxlcab. That is nothing strange fq a black arm to do. Black arms always come to the rescue, regardless of the of the party needing help. But according to the New' York World, when this rescuing black man was asked for 'lis name, by an observant poi'cem 'n, who wanted to report tin deed with due credit, the colore ' hero replied merely, without giving his name: "Just say a iiiack Man did it." And the capitals are ours, Modest as he Is, he could not overlook the Interesting elements of this situation. Yes "a black man did It." If itt bad been a crime, it not have been necessary to .cquest them to say that it wa a "black man," AVe have met a number of colored people who "seemed to think it desir able to be "the only NegTO,"........the first (and probably the last) colored person to do so-and-so.". the exception,", or the "altho-he..is..colored But R. R. Moton is "Just a black man" and we like him for it. And Motoa is right, for that act of rescue Is "Just-llke-a-black..man." That Is the way black men act The opposite action is the exception. We only wish that black women were equally as likely to meet help, courtesy and protection from the average white man. - BEAUTY TALKS. (By The Associated Negro Press.) Old dears, 1 write this beneath the famed trees of Chicago University campus. Summer school 1b on. In all Its grind, and hundreds of strange students, of every age, color and de scriptlon hurry by. I am interested In chiefly the ladies, (God Diess mem; because sizing them up helps me get "local color" for these chats with you. And since J am going to talk about hair every head that has passed has interested me. Much to my dis appointment, some of the comures are all covered up, but thank heavens there are plenty bare heads left! By the way some young co-ed has re ceived the Japanese Umbrella style, and the bare heads, under the gaily colored paper shades, xrow more numerous each day. There are many bobs and some of them are to be en vied, while others arouse pity and of others well, the least I can say is "How do they get like that?' For the sake of the innocent bystander, if you have any idea of bobbing, first dope out the fellow who spoke of the "fitness of things" meant The ill advised clipping of your crowning glory may mean that you'll look like a caricature Instead of the fair young thing you hope to be mistaken for. And no matter how you wear it, long or short, be sure It looks like hair, and not matress stuffing or wet rope or tobacco stripplngs of some of the things I've seen hair resemble. Or course you keep it clean, but not too clean, you know. And do you brush it but you don t tear the scalp up in your zeal, do you? And you do not torture It by twisting it too tightly do you? And, oh please, I entreat you to avoid excessive use of oil! An English student was asking me about a girl on the campus who had impress ed him by her beauty. He gave a glow ing description of her, enthusing about her magnetic vitality, etc., but when he got past her smooth brown skin and her lambent eyes, he stopped flushed and then because we have no terrors for each other, said sadly, "But she has fried hair:" Instantly I knew of worn hen be spoke every t'me I have teen her I could visualize red hot Irons, a big bottle of oil and perspiring, good-natured operator who gossiped Incessantly as she fried the hair. I knew she had never been in a Nile Queen shop, or it would never haved looked like that. I hope she reads this, and acts accord lngly. Wre Nile Queens are well ac quainted with the irons, but not ac good looking and no end Jolly, but 8 aqg -eqods eq tuoq. jo ann j they use them In the average "beauty parlor". I've seen such places called Mm. This, Mm. That's System when any of them and all of them have the same formula, profuse petroleum, the gas turned high, and a choice bit of scandal." Oh you poor hair! Don't go in for elaborate hair dresi for it is'nt being done in the best circles any more. The only persons who attempt to look like the wax figure in the win dow of Mme. Culturists usually suc ceed to the detriment of their hair hudy your features and act accord ingly. If you will perm.t me to com mit something of a pan, "To thy own face be true and thou canst not be a pain to any man." Selah, A Nile Queen. BOOK CHAT. By Mary Waite Ovington, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored people. I began my Book Chat the end of October and It has occured io me that it would be Interesting to sum marize my mateilai and to learn whe ther there Is anything In particular that it shows. I have reviewed 31 books, besides noting one magazine article and writing two articles on the Habits of Reading. The books re viewed represent the following sub jects: Fiction, D; Essays, 8; Complations, 3; Poetry, 3; Drama, 1; History, 2; Folk Lore, 2; Biograrby, 1; Gov't, 1. Or this number eleveu have been by Negroes and twenty by whites. The whites have- written all the fiction ex cept Batuoala, a novel by a French man. All the essays also, (rather a loose term for a number of articles. have been by whites except Dark Wa ter. Of the four Compilations, three are br whites, the fourth. The Book of American NegTO Poetry is however, po ,r-h hotter than any other of the compilations that one wantn ,to count 't. t lrp under a compilation and on"e tinker poetry. However, I have only counted it uendr compilation. The three volumes of poetr" have been, two by Negroes, one by white; while the history, drama, biography and folk lore have all been by Negroes. This last fact seems to me Impor tant. ,V.e have not an abundant of first ratu storing and fiist rate articles colored writers, but we find that they are studvin? the race question thoroughly. They are gathering muterial, and in the case of Brawley's h'story, writing a memorable 1 iok on the r? ?e in America. This w ill make a grent . difference with the vo'tngcr urenernt'on of whites and colored r'ho will be ab'e to study the Ne.srro question from the members of the mkg Ufo'f. Of the white authors. Jffve are southerners, and everv one .of tbse whltos svmpatbetlcally of the colored man. Tbe children of the ; midst bps a pleasant but old time flavor, but the others are modern books seeing the shortcomings of the black. They are somewhat pessi mistic, witness G. T. Robinson's MinnrtHPB In the inuulrv into Civilization n the Unted States, but they have ceased to echo tne oio iasn ioned slave-holder doctrine that the white man la the Negro's benefactor. They portray wth terrible clearness, notably "Birthright", which has at tained more fame than any of the others, except Batuoala, the exploita tion of the blacks by tho whites. The dAiiitiDnav iinAs not vet nalnt the col- UUIUVII.I 1 rbrcd man as we would like him to. but he has become unsnaing in nut denunciation of his own race. These are a few of the things to be said regarding our recent race books. My reviews have been a plea sure to write and will be continued thru the summer every other week. The National Association would like to bring them out if there is a demand for them. They would be printed in good tvpe and retail for fifty rents a copy. If six hundred copies can be subscribed for in advance, the edition will be printed. Whnt Individuals, newspapers, agents, want to wibnerlbe for Bock Chnt? The edition wnnlfl com prise nine reviews, making forty In all. Write to the N. A. A. C. P.. 70 Fifth Ave.. If vou want the volume, getting wholesale rates. SAYS LIXCOLW BET AW IDEAL FOB WORLD. tBy A. N. P.) Chicago, 111., July IS. In a public addrrss delivered in Leon Mander as sembly hall of the University of Chicago. Professor William E. Dodd of the history department, talked on Lincoln ' and the recently expressed southern chaises that the Emanic- pator was responsible for the Civil "Some southerners," Prof. Dodd laid, "particularly the Daughters of tha Confederacy, insist today as the lead ers of the south did sixty years ago that Abraham Lincoln was responsible for the Civil War and all Its horrors. There are some northerners, partlcu larly the reatlonary party groups, who Insist that Lincoln was wholly' without responsibility fur the catas trophe of 1861-65. "But neither the one side nor the other In this contention Is right. Lin coln Is one of the great democrats of American history In spite of the war between north and south, in spite of all the mistakes that he and his fl- ) lows of both sides made In the crisis. Llacola nia- trebles. 'Lincoln sought at a time of per culiar national backsliding to bring the country back to its first great faith, the faith that all men are created free and equal a great dogma that Is not quite the fact Because men of property In 1160 would not submit their rights of property to tha will of simple majorities there aroso a crisis. "Tk. annth...... tan A - I I .. a ..iv bw . uv. iiv. 0 iwu aimuuuucu Jefferson. They said everywhere In 1w.!i .1 r-t i . , in.i wiTj j-rcuiaraiion oi inaepen) dence was a fraud, a fallacy. They set up the contrary Ideal that inequal ity la the rule of life; they Insisted that the owners of property should govern everywhere. That meant that tn owners of slaves should govern. "Now there may be fallacy in the assertion of the Ideal of equality. Hut that Is the fundamental fact In the Declaration of Independence. The existence of the American nation la due to the belief In that ideal. Bet Hval Far WerM. "If the United States has influenced mankind in anything It bas not done so by its work of art, It y Its Inven tions, or by Its statecraft, important as these have been; it has Influenced mankind everywhere because its ideal of human equality; the struggle for the elevation of the heavy laden work ers of the world. "Now the south departed from the ideal. Its leaders were political scien tists. Its philosophers sought to prove that every man is either Inferior to or superior to some one else. They stumbled about in the great wilder ness of science searching for the law of the survival for the flttlest and the subordination of the unfit, the fyro. to everlasting servitude. And sc ence supported their claim. History ivd ihSmte? wer" r,ht- Religion preached their doctrine. Literature was "n ,J ojldence of the ,-ospal of in- ftnilfl lit V Tha r . Hilar" iuwt wm overwnein. NEGROES TAKE PART I VIADUCT CELEIIHATION. (Preston News Service), Memphis. Tenn., July IS. The Net gro presidents of southside will take Dart in t h i.iah..nA. . , I with the viaduct during carnival I week. Dr. Duvail. who has charge of lLh0 viaduct celebration, declared last .Tuesday night that Negroes of the Southside are showing as much if not greater Interest In the viaduct cele bration pian than any other persons, and this manlfiYe interest has led the committee to provide additional day or tha fete on which Negroes will :tt.ve.t'ntlr cm"'' of the program. ;A11 the entertainments ' ard amuse ment rPAt II rp. ..n-.. , n ...a carnival will be retained for the Ne groes. Leaders of the race will prob ably originate some additional feao ures of their own. Dr. Duvalt said. "It Is gratifying to note the civic pride ! manifested by the Colored people of SHOT TWO WOMEN) LYNCHED. (By A. N. P.) Shreveport, La., July 18. Joe Pem berton, Colored, was taken from the Bossier parish Jail at Benton by a mob and hi nged to a tree in Biack Bayou swamp, two miles from Bere ton. Fembertcn had been arrested and jailed Tuesday night following the shooting of two Colored women. !niESTED FOR HPKFinilOt" WAS nn 1AllHlEll UOING TO WORK. (By A. N. P.) Newark, N. .T., July 1J. Charles Mason, dapper Colored man, arrested for speeding, turned out to be a union hod carrier hastening to take up his labors. He said he always en deavored to be punctual. , V