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PottHtued Rv?rt Sat onlay by John Mitchell. Jr. 4t all Nortn Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL. JR.EDITOR iU uomiTiunicatIoib intended tor publication riouM b* **m to leach u» by Wednesday. Kn.te-eJ »t the IM* Office at Rfcluuond. Yirjcir.i . u.' claw matte1* e u* One Y cue . Six Months . fhvee Month* .. .. Foreign Sui«ct)i>tiiJoa * 8 .00 1.10 .00 2.50 Forviao ui erasing Representative, W. B. tiff £i'.i.yaiiy. 0OS S. Uearboru Street, Chicago; til Victoria Building, St. Louis, Mo.; 420 Lon*i acre Building, Xew York. SATURDAY. .FEBRUARY 28, 1925 SOME or OUR PEOPLE are mak ing Progress and some others are losing gr*»«ne. YOU CANNOT SET bad examples for < olored folks and then expect them to \'f wise in their day and gv nei atiofi. THE WAY LOOKS DARK at times for ai ©i *u. but we comfort our selves with the knowledge that Gvid is at the idira. WE THANK ouv friends for re member >•£ ns and for sending finan cial he4d We are laboring hard and saying thO® about It. The outlook '•s blight. ;I Hr Ol'ttOliXMKlM MEMORIAL. HON SIMON GVGiUENHEIM, mem ber »i the tenuous raining family and once ¥i>*ed States Senator from Colorado, has announced that he and his vtie have made a preliminary ift of «irlion dollars to endow fifty fellowships for international study, thus establishing ai> American sup!>!«mem 10 the Cecil Rhodes scholarships. This means that more money w ill ultimately be set aside by this di . 4asu»ehed family for the same purpose. Th--f fellowships are to be a me morial to ene late Joint. Simon Gug genheim taeir son, who died April •J6rh. !9JS. while preparing to enter Harvard University as a prelude to study *t bread. They are to be known as tht John Simon Guggen heim Me»*rt*a! Foundation Fellow ships. The fellowships will be avail able t© women as well! as men. married cr unmarried, of any race, color or creed. The arceu*: ot‘ raouey available for each h Bowship will be about two thou-and, #ve hundred dollars per year, hut na*y be increased or de creased &««ording to the individual »r©d of the indent The usual term of feHowskti* will he one year, but this may be lengthened or shortened, even to plane for twq or three years study as the circumstances dictate. The age (limit has not been fixed arbitrarily, but the presumption is that it wtjl range from twenty-five years to thirty five. The first awards will be for the academic year from 1923 to 1926. The Ouggenheims have taken hfgh ground and their names will live throughout the ages as having risen to the heights of true greatness in barring no worthy per son on account of race, colo* or creed from taking advantage of this op portunity to climb the heights of brilliant achievement in science, literature and art. PULTON NOTES. (Thomas Page. Agent) Rev. W. L. Tuck, of Gravel Hill i B-.m st Church preached last Sunday, j The Elder and hfe Madame and C. j 0. Jefferson dined with Mr. and, M •. Sickiel Harris. Rev. C. Fs. Jefferson preached for the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Usher Board at night. Rev. Harris preached at Union Level Baptist Church morning and night. Rev. W. Morris will officiate morrow.. Rev. Lew s FruySl-er preached at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in the morning. Rev. Thornton Clarke in the afternoon. The Sunday School ! officers were installed by Mr. Percy Moore. Rev. C. A. Cobbs preached at night. Rev. John Kemp preached last Monday night. The congregation of Shiloh Baptist : Church will move to their new home , on Center St. tomorrow. A fine pro gramme has l>oen arranged. Rev. S. L. Bush, the pastor and his corps of workers have arranged a rich treat fOj- tomorrow. All are welcome. » AN ANNOUNCEMENT. [ The Goodwill Baptist Church, 410 ; X. Monroe street is a new unit to the } Baptist Church, with a very broad program. Rev. W. B. Ba.l, pastor n rites the public and his many friends to worship Sunday, Marcl 1st, 11:30 A. M. and 8:30 P. M. Sunday School, 3:30 P. M. Special music. All are invited. REV. W. B. BALL, Pastor. F. BALL, Clerk. Night Coughing— How to Stop It Night coughing which, through loss of valuable sleep, often makes you feel utterly worn-out and use less during the day, and by quickly weakening the system lays you open to the most dangerous infec tions, can now be promptly checked by a very simple treatment. Peo ple who have hardly been able to rest on account of coughing spells j have found that they can sleep the whole night through undisturbed often after the very first trial. The treatment is based on a remark i able prescription known as Dr. King’a New Discovery. You simply take a tea spoonful at night before retiring and hold it in your throat for 15 or 20 sec onds before swallowing it. The pre scription has a double action. 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They can be ob tained at 25^ each from nearly all drug stores, or will be sent post paid upor. receipt of price by the EXELENTO MEDICINE CO.,Atlanta,Ga. 1 AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Writ* For Particular* WARNING TO RACE PEOPLE Don’t take the wrong package! i When you ask for Dr. Fred Pal J mer’s Skin Whitener Preparations, be sure you get them. Don’t let the 1 clerk hand you the wrong package. Hundreds of people have been de ceived, just because they failed to say Dr. FRED Palmer’s. The or iginal Dr. Fred Palmer’s Skin Whitener Preparations have proven their merit, and when you buy them you know you are getting the best. Insist upon Dr. Fred Pal mer’s Skin Whitener Preparations, and take no substitute. For sale by druggists carrying preparations demanded by race people. Free samples will be sent if you write Dr. Fred Palmer’s Laboratories, Dept. W-l, Atlanta, Ga„ and en close 4e for postage.— (Adv.), iOl E. Clav 407 W. Leigh VISIT MALLORY'S MARKET. Inc. Keeps everything that's good to eat All Kinds of FRESH MEATS and all kinds ot FliESII FISH, POULTRY FRUITS VEGETABLES, OYSTERS GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS. Up-to-date Sanitary Store. MALLORY S MARKET , Inc. Plume Randolph 4529. vighi Call Residence, Madison 6039. THANKS. mS(2£_6osS V COLORFUL “THE CAMERAMAN.” “MOVIES” I—ATTENTION! WOMEN OF OHIO. 2—OPTIMISM] EVEN IN FAILURE v-THE MAN FROM LIBERIA 4—ANT iR( )POLOGY AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY 5—THEY’LL MISS MIR. UPHAM. ( VAV'ut j ! ATTENTION! j - WOMEN OF OHIO. Just a few weeks ago’, Mrs. Eva B. Wright, journalist and leader of women, formerly of j Ohio, but now of Washington, 1). C. pointed . out some things which should be done by I Negro women of the Buckeye State in ordei ! to safeguard and promote their political fio ! turc. Probably of more importance than the sub i ject raised by Mrs. Wright is the industrial situation, as it affects the Negro women of Ohio. In a study made by the U. S. Women’s Bureau, it is stated that of 16,788 adult wo men, nondiscriminamely investigate^ in ,302 Ohio industrial establishments, 80 per cent were native-born whites; 4.6 per cent were ’ native-born Negroes; and 15.4 per cent were foreign-born whites, which shows conclusively that there is something wrong with matters which affect the inclusion of our female racial group in the industrial occupations of the great State of Ohio. This significant truth is is brought even more strongly to light when it is remembered that the Negro population of Ohio is close to a quarter of a million, and that during the past eight years of migration, Ohio was a veritable “first stop” for nearly forty per cent of the Negro migrants. When it is considered that foreign-born women, at work in Ohio, comprise more than 15 per cent of the female labor forces, as against about 4 1-2 percent for our group, it is apparent‘ that we are lagging sadly in the Ohioan industrial world. The fault may not be ours, but the nakfcd truth calls for ,a | remedy. Of the 16,788 females studied by the U. S. I Women's Bureau, our group totaled 771 • ! Strange to say, in the laundry industry upon i which it has always been presumed that we should have the “corner” our women com | prised 14.5 per cent, a third place mark in ' competition between themselves, having made j 17.8 per cent in the occupations of producing * food products and 16.6 per cent in the occu pations of the glass industry. The Negro women have a joke upon their ! white native-born contemporaries, however, | when it is observed that the foreign-born Ohio ' operatives made 53.4 per cent in occupations I necessary to the manufacture of women’s clothing. In this particular the American ! whites fell to 46.2 per cent, which certainly | does not permit any congratulations on the j part of. the white folks. Negro women comprised 2.9 per cent in the ! manufacture of &uto toPs and otller c*11™9 j products; 0.4 per cent in candymaking; 3-3 j per cent in metal products; 9.0 in paper and j paper products; 0.3 per cent in rubber and rubber products; and 3.4 per cent in general mercantile manufactures. They had virtually no representation in advertising; gloves; pot tery; cordage* nosiery; wooien gwus, aim ! a host of products of lesser importance. And i above the whole situation the poor showing is ! outstanding. In fact, it calls for treatment by Ohio employers who believe in American em. ; ployees for American goods; and by our wo j men of Ohio, who deserve the fullest consid j erations in the industrial pride of a great | State, which is as much their home as it is i anyone’s else. I I OPTIMISM, EVEN IN FAILURE i Fisk, Garvey. Union Laborers Bank at Washington, Brown and Stevens Bank at Philadelphia, etc., are examples of lack of success among certain ranks of racial endeavor during the past six months. However, thess events are not uncommon ones. Their counter ! parts appear constantly among all peoples and | amid all business ventures. The advent ot j failure is no signal for tears and weeping. Rather, it is a call for renewed confidence and ; the resolution to continue to press forward i It is a call for reinforced support and per severance. If. every time a train was wrecked or a bo«t was sunk, people ceased their intercourse via travel and transportation routes, what would become of the world’s business’ Discontent is a stimulant of ambition. Pride is the forerunner of effort. Racial { business and racial men are striving for the * new emancipation—the new independence, as it were, among the peoples of the world. Failures within their ranks were long since preceded by failures within the ranks of theii contemporary racial groups. [When failures come, new units of business must spring up anti must be supported by an intelligent peo p e who show some knowledge of world his tory and racial endeavor. The groupal men and women who get cold feet over a temporary waiver of racial business whether in bank, grocery store, or profession will never contribute one cubit to the stature and growth of racial endeavor. Robert Fulton was deemed an idiot for his experiment with the Clermont. Stephenson was derided for his efforts to perfect the steam engine. Even Columbus was put in chains fot his ideas of the globe. But let a Negro bank fail or a racial movement strike the rocks, and ten thousand voices would crucify our hopes and desires for the next decade. Some one has said ‘‘to err is human—to forgive is divine”. Ridicule and criticism must give way to optimism and support. Negro business must be given our hearts and our hands and our money. Confidence must pervade our ranks, for little by little we are pushing ahead. One swallow doesn’t make a summer; neither does one bank failure, or a dozen, for that matter, impute a dismal future for the Negro banking business. Upon this theory hangs our future and the future of our children’s children. THE MAN FROM LIBERIA Does the serious side of American life, its possibilities and its impossibilities, make the most profound impression upon those to whom America's birthright comes as a natural devise; or is it a fact that foreign-born people, who have looked upon America’s opportunities with envious glances, seek in a more vigorous fashion than do we the chance to carve a perfect destiny out of the American scheme of honest-to goodness progress? We think the answer is found in the follow ing sketch, which has many counterparts, confined by no means to the black people of the world. The little brown man from Liberia of whom we write, reached this country in his early “teens” where he saw, first-hand, the variations of American education. Fate chanced to throw him into South Carolina, which, at best, does not offer any golden op portunity for the education of any black man, woman or child. Somehow, or other, though the little brown man from Liberia managed to pursue an academic preparatory course, following the completion of which, he quali fied as a candidate for the degree of Bacheloi of Science at Claflin University. By dint of hard work, the denial of ordinary comforts, and other semi-hardships, he secured his degree, without ever having failed an exam ination. Vacation seasons were spent hand ling dinner trays and other hand implements. The little brown man plugged right along, for he had decided to become a lawyer. So he entered toward University Law College, where he persistently applied himself to the task of earning the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Of course, that degree was not of much worth, without a supplementary certifi cate from some State Board of Law Examin ers. So the little brown man of five feet five presented himself to the Law Board, ana when we saw him the other night he had just taken the oath of the Circuit Court. He was all smiles, of course. He had already rented office space and made a first payment upon a set of Corpus Juris. “A great country is America”, he said>“I wish my fellow country men could have just half my chance”. And we thought of the pluses of life of our own people here in the land of opportunity curtailed at times by outbursts of prejudiced people, but, most of the time, offering some sort of an equitable chance to develop. We realized more and more that the foreign-born people, who nerve themselves up to the point of leaving home for the unknown, mean business when they touch American soil. 1 hey are serious minded: full of quiet energy: and bound up with the bonds of perseverance, like Seabron F. Hall, the little brown man from Liberia. ARE WE? ANTHROPOLOGY AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY The “Skull-Testers” are to be augmented by some descendants of Ham; for, lo, Howard University is to install a course of anthropo logical study, and dusky men and maidens are to have a chance for themselves to trace skull thicknesses and pigment variations amid a bronze atmosphere. ,It doesn’t appear, from the Howard an* nouncement, whether this is to be a “get even” project or a bona fide attempt to evolve some theories which will have the proper psycho logical effect upon the unfortunate “doubting Thomases” of our own group, who seem t# think and act in terms which acknowledge physical and mental inferiority, as compared with the standards of the white group, which, ever and anon, tries to let down the curtain upon our desires, both individually and groupally. Anthropology is a mighty fine study, par ticularly from a recreational standpoint; but, for practical purposes, a course in bricklaying or medicine would probably bring healthier returns, both morally and financially; for knowledge is power and power is money, anil money buys houses and shoes for the kiddies. Physiological psychology, astronomy and anthropology are outstanding sciences for ed ucational tourists and pathfinders; but, gee whiz, what can a son of Ham cash in on any of the three? We do not blame the Howard Faculty for putting in an anthropological course. They are getting “theirs” and must have some re creation other than that in vogue at separate bathing beaches and golf links. And since Howard is a Class “A” college, we are half wav glad that it is augmenting its curriculum with mysterious subjects. But, no Howard graduate in anthropology will be able t# change the white folks’ mind; nor will a bronze-colored anthropologist have much of a chance in debate with the “Nordics” whose minds are already quite made up as to the evolution of man and monkey. So, until Yale, Harvard, Columbia an* Princeton put in special courses in pigment study, we can’t, for the lives of us, see muck to be hoped for from anthropological studies at any Negro university. THEY’LL MISS MR. UPHAM i “Fred Upliam gave me this alligator bag”, said one of the political BRETHREN as he sadly read of the death of the former Treas urer of the Republican Committee. And we know that the BROTHER felt jtist like a child who thinks that Santa Clattt has gone for good. Mr. Upham was undoubtedly very very good to the BRETHREN who not infrequent ly adorned the payroll and expense voucher list of the National Republican Committee. Nor is it any reflection upon Mr. Upham te say that the strings upon the Republican po litical purse have been drawn a little tighter since Mr. Upham resigned. This change was merely in keeping with the newer and different system along all lines of administration, effect ive since last June. Mr. Upham was of the Old School. The accounts of the staff were not scrutinized in the fine-toothcomb way of today. Slight additions and extras which the BRETHREN frequently added to travel expense accounts and the like, in the days of Mr. Upham, us ually glided on through with the okay of the late G. O. P. Treasurer. In fact, it was Mr. Upham’s financial philosophy that the BRETH REN were freqnently slightly underpaid; and unless an item was flagrantly unreasonable upon its face, Mr. Upham seldom used his big red ink pen, as a silencer of the financial hopes of the various campaigners. He augmented this attitude with gifts to the faithful few in the way of traveling bags, canes, cigars, etc. And so. notwithstanding the present effi ciency of the accounting system of the G. O. P. administrative organization the BRETH REN of the Old School will miss Mr. Upham. While he lived, there was always hope that some more bags or brief cases might still evolve from his generous hands. It was a sort of a psvchologv which always departs with the object which gives it life. The cur tain is down.