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* Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. ; it 8'.'. North Fourth Street. Richmond, Va. j i. i H.V MITCHEDL. JR.EOl .'OR • - ..tlons i:;t.*nde<l (or publication tc. it.,. • t-. #■*! vo reach us by VVednaaJa, ; Entered ** the Post Oil"'? at Richmond. Virginia a* cihou.! c!.t*e uiurtct c m One T“ir .I *•*** i Six Months . J-10 three Months . Foreign Subscript ions . *-S0: foreign Advertising Repreeentative, W. B. CiU Company, OOS S. Dearborn Street, Chicago; 8X1 Victoria Building, St. Louis, Mo.; 420 Long cere Building, New York. SATURDAY.MARCH 21, 1925 _i THE ABSENCE of Vice-President Charles G Dawes, when the vote on the confirmation of Hon. Charles W. Varre' as Attorney Genera! of the Un .ted States took place in the Vr-ited States Senate recently has occasioned no end of comment and' p es that distinguished American | in a most embarrassing situation. vYith the lounging rooms adjacent Kj he Senat Chamber and palatiai i!s n the. immed ate neighbor hood, it 's ’.most inconceivable that k should have absented himse f wren a qv -st on so vital to the a 1 n. istra it v. as under discussion. !» is mi Uy hinted and publicly v . ^d that he was given assurances h - » vote on this confirmation w< tid not tale place that afternoon. H • also knew that he was dealing vi h politi tans, many of whom .masqueraded iu the robes of states men. Be that as it may. a most delicate situation now exists. Presi dent Cooiidge is in the most humil iating position of having a man named as a member of his offic-al family, who has been denounced in open session as morally corrupt and who he declares to be a person above reproach. There is nothing for him to do but to ‘stand to his guns” and establish the fact that his appointee has been grossly libelled and outrageously slandeied. * SOME PEOPLE are never satisfied ar.-.i they do not try to be. HABITS FORMED in early life often prove to be a handicap in the years to come. EUROPE IS VAINLY iookuig to rhe United States of America to join the League of Nations. WOMEN WHO WANT husbands are generally forward in desiring to be rid of them. ---- MEN WHO EARN much money usually invite and obtain the hatred of the r colleagues, who are less fortunate. t -* THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE of the colored persuasion have gone North. Hundreds have returned but the bulk 9 of them are remaining in the new land of their adoption. -9 COLORED FOLKS do not believe in supporting each other. They try expedients that have been throw’* aside by other foiks and then wonder' why they have such a hard time in ttr s life. ! -* SOME PEOPLE are born for sla \erv and some others were ushered inro this life to enjoy freedom. The former l.ve In the jails and peniten t'aries practically all of the time. , They cannot go straight. .-9 PRACTICALLY every person with the -‘gift of gab”, who is having “rough sledding” regards the Christ' ian ministry as the road to easy living. In’*this* if he is not compe tent, he deceives himseilf and soon finds out that he is on the road to the poor house. -x-— . —■ S:5iM> IV PRIZES " ? ESSAYS OV SCOPE AM) METHODS OF TEACHING HEALTH. In its nex i the Virginia i oiunni of Ediieat; v. will print the ■on-lit'ons to govern the award of prizes offered by Honorab’e R. Wal on Moore, of pairfax, Virginia. The eor-teet s to consist of an ssav ccmrerltion. o* 'n to any teach or in Viri* n-ia’s rural schools, the subject to lie; “What is being done and v hat should be done to improve : r-1 conserve the health of the chil dren and teach them the necessity and methods of maintaining hygienic and san tary co-iditione in the com munities where :hey live”. Congressman Moore offered the prizes af-er consultation with the .'tate Health Commissioner and the f.title Super ntendent of Public In s' ruction. Both of these officials cordially endorsed the proposal and they agreed to formulate fair con ditions for holding the contest. The conditions have been prepared and will appear in- the next issue of the: Journal of Education. I The purse offered by Mr. Moore,! will le divided into three parts. The 1 first prize wi'l be $150: the second, 'sir-0, and the third. $50. i In restricting the com petition to rural teachers, there was no thought; of n1 eying favor tea; but. the donor of the prize and the two officials un ider whose auspices the contest is to be held—all thought that the extra 1 opportunities lor technical informa tion available to city teachers would give them an undue advantage over 'the rural teachers. i + i ^ t m - i HIS VIEWS ON RACE QUESTION CHANGED COMPLETELY. ATLANTA, GA., March 10.—An 1 Interesting feature of the Interracial Movement in the South has been the organization of interracial student groups in a number of college centers by which white and colored students are brought together at regular in tervals for the exchange of v'ews and the promotion of understanding. The results have been gratifying in every case Misapprehensions have been HOW DO YOU DIKE THIS SONG? READ IT! When the night is lonely And the world is asleep. Baby gets up to see What Santa Claus for a Christmas treat Has put on. her Christmas Tree; And she on finding such handsome things Is glad as she can be, As she views the things, softly she sings Tills tune with mirth and glee. CHORUS: jr-c I thank you Santa Claus, I thank you Santa Claus, I thank you foi; such beautiful gifts You gave to me so1 free Each prec'ous thing is nice, indeed, A d mean-, so much to me. Oh! you're so g >od and kind. , Oil! you’re so good and kind. You,- heart is ol' the whitest hue, You're a perfect friend, that s true. I tha.ik you Santa Claus, On the day of Christmas When the world is awake. Baby calls in to see What Santa Claus for her neighbors’ , sake Has put on. their Christmas Tree; And she discovers her neighbor friends As gay as they can be, As she views the things, of her dear friends They all repeat with glee. Chorus. | Now that you have read it, without doubt your conclusion is, I like -*t fine; I would like to hear ft sung with music. | Well, of course, it isn’t Christmas . now, hut if you really would like to hear th's poem with music, which is , indeed a beautiful melody, just send me your address and the name of the Sunday School or Church you attend and' l will gladly send you a | copv of the song. ; I have only 15,000' copies to dis-. poce of in this manner, and in the meantime this notice is being an nounced in ten. of the largest Negro periodicals in the South; so to make ^ sure that you get your copy send ; immediately after you read th no* If you attend the Sunday School, j don't’ fall to send for a copy, as I ; have something of interest to tell you’ „ .. • DANIEL GREEN. Publisher, ; 637 Griffin Ave., Jacksonville, F:a. j 11 -----— i cleared up, knowledge has taken the place of rumor and preconception., and confidence and goodwill hrve supplanted suspicion and prejud-Ce. The following story show’s how the plan works: At an early meeting this year of the Atlanta group, made up of stu dents of three white and three colored colleges, the question of higher edu cation for Negroes was raised One white student very frankly said that he did not believe in it; he thought it unnecessary and undesirable. He was asked to bring in at the suc ceeding meeting a paper in support of his view, while a colored student was asked to prepare a paper on the other side. With much interest the group looked forward to the expected debate. At the next meeting of the commit tee, the white student was called upon for his paper. He replied “I haven’t any. When I began to look into the subject, I found I was wholly mistaken. My views are completely changed. I believe now that colored students should have the same sort ; •" : mal opportunities that other people have. ‘‘Not only so”, he continued, but I think we ought to do something about this matter. A great many people still think as I used to, just because they do not know. Lets go to work to get the facts over to them through the press and otherwise”. ED. PURDY’S PHILOSOPHY. “Slim Tedson who always mowed the weeds off the vacant lots for the city is out of a job. They are all occu pied by gas filling stations. THIS OUGHT TO REDUCE HIM A LITTLE BIT*. HAKDEC/• HAI2PEE/ mit r HAKDEI2 i COlORfUL NcWS “MOVIES” By “THE CAMERAMAN.” i-INTERSECTIONAL AMALGAMATION. 2—BIRTH OF A NATION. 3.-ON TO .PHILADELPHIA. 4—COLORETTES. (FrfS;o» i\rC1VS AsTTV*) I INTERSECTIONAL AMALGAMATION. The wWte North and the white South are blending more and more each year, forgetting the great internal conflict of the sixties and the bleaching bones of Gettysburg. Antietam and Vicksburg, when the Union was nearly torn asunder by the intersectional combat. It is good that friendship has taken the place of [ dissension in a nation which, as Lincoln said could not endure half slave and half free; and it is good that this devout wish for an insep arable nation has been realized. Northern capital is being lavishly poured into the industrial and agricultural projects of I the South- With more than one hundred and a half million dollars invested in cotton, woolen silk and cordage mills. North Carolina now | vies with Massachusetts. Birmingham steel is as carefully worked, as is that of Pittsburgh. Northern inventions turn over Southern soil. Southern students attend Yale, Harvard and Columbia; and Chicago and New York youth j go to the leading universities of the South, ; These exchanges breed friendship, and in their continuation the one great fact becomes out standing—the fact that the South is absorbing , much of the North and the North is absorbing I much of the South, including the all important factor in the life of the Negro, which is SEN j TIMENT. Quite naturally the question arises as to just what kind of a balance yill appear when it is struck. Which current will be the stronger in the tide of exchange? Will the customs of the Southland overbalance the tempered fair ness and law enforcement which have long , existed to a considerable degree in the North land r Whether or no, there is a great big bet which the BRETHREN have been overlook ing during tlds pending transition between the white North and the white South. And that has been the failure to stimulate similarly . friendiv confidences within the race* North and South. Division lines in the majority group are being rapidly removed, and the BROTHER, North and South, must realize that hi just a few more years his location will not amount, in importance- to an August zephyr. In matters of national importance, his problems will be the same in Georgia as they are in Massachu setts Suspicion must cease. Friendship must prevail. A he ballot must be secured for all; and respect and teamwork must be invoked intra-radally, from Florida to Michigan. The united front of the majority group must be met by a united front of the minority group; for eventually the Declaration of American Independence is going to apply, without direct or indirect distinction, to all the peoples of America BIRTH OF A NATION. ■w > I David Wark Griffith’s ill-famed film* “The Birth of a Nation”, has begun another tour* having opened last Sunday in Washington* Capital of the Nation whose birth the screen playwright attempts to portray by a movie ve hicle whose historical background has been twisted, turned and distorted to satisfy the fancies of the mob spirit, parenthetically the 1925 advent of Mr. Griffith’s greatest financial film reminds us of a bill which was passed f by the South Carolina legislature since the Birth of a Nation last played to crowded white audiences of Washington. The South Carolina bill provides that mov ing picture films showing as characters women of the white or Negro race cannot be displayed in theaters of the State used exclusively by the persons of the race other than that of the women characters in the films. The bill fur ther lias an addenda to the effect that it does not aoplv to theaters for whites which have galleries for Negroes- Under the addenda, such nauseating films as the Birth of a Nation, which carries portrayals of women of both races, is free, we presume- to continue its tour into South Carolina; for lo and behold, under the strict requirements of the substance of the bill, the Griffith feature would be unable to enter South Carolina. Returning to our discussion of the film it self. it was cur extreme displeasure- about ten years ago, to view the Birth of a Nation nine tiir.es, for historical purposes and *n order to criticise it upon its face record- It may be interesting to the readers of this column to nv that the character of Stoneman, the abolitionist, was partially taken from the great Thaddeus Stevens- Congressman from Lan caster County, Pennsylvania, during a portion of Lincoln’s administration and the reconstruc tion period. There has never been a states man in the history of America who so fear k sslv endeavored to establish justice and equity ‘or the Negro. Stevens had much to do with the passage of the Civil Rights Bill. He was on his feet in the Hosue at the slightest op portunity to invoke justice and amend the Constitution so as to elevate the Negro free dom to fulsome rights as American citizens. The Birth of a Nation portrays the Stone man-Stevens character with gross falseness. Its historical quotations are distorted into un truths. It magnifices the exception rather than the rule and it elevates prejudice rather than statesmanship, or even good fiction, to the pedestal of adoration1- The exultation of theater audiences over the Griffith picture is visible proof that there are still present in the good old U. S. A., a careless- thoughtless group of people seeking entertainment and the appeasing of vulgar desires, unmindful of truth, and immune to the glory and honor which really saturated the birth and life of the American nation ON TO PHILADELPHIA \ \ Mayor Kendrick, of Philedephia» has sent a personal invitation t1 President King of Li beria, to attend the Sesqui-centennial Exposi tion. to be held under the auspices of The Sesqui-centennial Exhibition Association, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia- in 1926. -For the benefit of those who may have over looked this coming festival, it was provided for by the Pennsylvania Legislature on April 28, 1921. Subsequently, the Sixty-Seventh Congress of the United States, under IT. Rr Resolution No. 170- in celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, suggested that the President of the United States should invite the participation and cooperation of the States of the Union and the Nations of the World. Thus, the invitation extended to President KinS, of Liberia, gives codor to the situation 1; and lends strength to the presumption that the BRETHREN may have an auspicious place in the Pennsylvanians’ coming celebra tion- Pennsylvania has much to present in the way of an exhibition of the attainments of its Negro citizens. As far back as 1920, the U. S. Census gave Philadelphia a Negro pop ulation of 134-000 and upwards- Philadel phians now roundly assert that this population is now approaching the 200,000 mark. There is undoubtedly a reason for this. It must be admitted that executives and officials of the Keystone State, partly by sheer of good will and partly by pressure of the BRETHREN themselves, have seen to it that the citizens of Pennsylvania have an active participation ii the affairs of its government. (Under Dr. Bllen C. Potter, Director of the State Department of Welfare, effective work lias been done to make comfortable and healthy the State’s Negro citizens- Experts from our own ranks- such as Forrester B. Washington, A. L. Manly, John T. Clark and others, have kept faithful watch upon the industrial and housing conditions which our Pennsylvania group has faced- Employment has been plentiful, and our race members have become thrifty, educated, and promotive of genuine progress in an atmosphere normally free from prejudice and full of political opportunities. The professions and businesses among our ?roup have thrived in the Keystone State. It is to be ardently hoped that eminet-t colored ladies and gentlemen of this country as well as from over the seas will receive in vitations from Mayor Kendrick to attend the coming Exposition. Our race is proud of Pennsylvania anrt of Philadelphia- as to which it has a fulsome desire both to give and to receive worth and credit -.. 4 THE NEW YORK TIMES states that the job counter at Washington is quite bare. Wonder if the BRETHREN have discover! this truth. i FRANCIS WEIXS and the Blaine Invin cible Republican Club, of Washington, D. C. are asking for the appointment of a colored attorney to the post of Police Judge, District of Columbia. i ACCORDING TO CONGRESSMAN Linthicum. Democrat, of Maryland, the colored doorman of the U. S. Supreme Court, recently to'.d a Southern Congressman who resented being requested to remove his hat in the country’s highest court: “You had better re move your hat, because there is no appeal from this Court except to God”. t THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT has barred land ownership in Japan to aliens from states in which the Japanese are denied the right to land possession. THE GARVEY STEAMSHIP, General George W. Goethals- has been released by the U. S- Marshal at Kingston, Jamaica. THE OMEGA PSI FRATERNITY plans to erect a $5,000 memorial over the grave of Colonel Charles Danton Young, the only col. cred graduate of West Point Military Acad, emy to obtain the rank of Colonel* usa I j | NEW ORLEANS MEN FORM NEW INSURANCE COMPANY. (Preston News Sen-ice) NEW ORLEANS, LA., March 20— A group of prominent race men an-' nouneed last Thursday the organiza tion of the Eagle Life Insurance Com pany, with offices at 21‘J7 Drayades street. The announcement declared that th-i9 project was for the purpose of adding to the material progress of the race in Louisiana. The officers of the company are: Dr. E. T. M. Detore, president: Rev. J. L. Burrell, first vice president; Joseph Russell, Jr., second vice pres ident; F. A. Lewis, third vice presi dent; A. V. Dunn, secretary; S. Lyons Jordan, general manager. ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE (Preston News Serv'ce.) WTLSON, N. C.. March 14—Henry Cleveland. charged with the murder of Turner Lewis, was acquitted Wednesday afternoon when he faced prelim nary hearing before Justice of the Peace'W. R. Wood. The man was acquitted, when it was proven that he struck the blow that killed Lewis in self-defense. The incident took place shortly after midnight Saturday on Railroad street. lew's, it was alleged, at tacked Cleveland with a knife and the latter grabbed a piece of board from the step of a nearby house and (struck his assailant a blow oyer the head. 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