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PWbUMied Bvery Saturday by John Mitchell. Jr. at HI North Fourth Street, Richmond. Va. JOHN MITCHELL. JR.EDITOR ail communications intended for publication dkoolrf be sent to reach us by Wednesday. Xntered at tbe Poet Office at Richmond. Virginia a* second cla* matter. c m One Year .I Hz'Months . YW three Monthi ..# Foreign {Subscriptions . *-50 Foreign Advertising Representative, W. B. US Company. 608 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago; Ul Victoria Building, St. Louis, Mo.; 120 Long acre Building, New York. ■CS SATURDAY.JULY 11, 1S25 R. R. WRIGHT, Ph. D-, editor of The Christian Recorder is keeping the nat.on informed as to the do.ngs of 'ha: great church It is a cosily experiment and the Church is paying for it and it is well worth the money, expended ACCORDING TO THE report of Hon. C. Lee Moore. State Auditor, the colored people of Richmond owned in 1924 property, both real and personal, to the amount of , $4.Hill,950. This shows progress, es ‘ pecibilly in view of the large number who have left the State. Those who remain are still laboring hard to add v THE MANAGEMENT of Howard University showed commendable judgment when it was decided to ie tain that brilliant scholar. Dr. Kelly Miller. He is old enough to be per mitted to express himself freely upon any topic that he deems worthy of his consideration. He has grown far above his contemporaries and he is a veritable intellectual giant in this world of ours. Even hie name with out any actual labor will prove a valuab! asset to Howard L nvversity. THEY HAVE virtually “unhorsed” Dr. Archibald K. Grimke, one of the ablest theologians in this country and Mr. William H. Sinclair, one of the greatest agitators, this* or any other country has ever produced. Both are ext re musts of the most pronounced type. They uannot now and have never been able to see the wisdom of compromising with wrong or striking colors, even half way with error We admire their fighting qualities, but must admit that they have a poor conception of their present day judg tnent. Still, the principles for which they nre contending will ultimately tri uniph. although they may not live long enough to see if. We sometimes regard w ith disgust the rabble thar make virtual dcormats of some of our brightest minds and who do not pause long enough to consider the truths that they are expounding for their benefit without money and without price. to their present accumulations. CHICAGO NEWS. Dr. John M. Gandy, president of The Virginia S:ate College at Peters burg. Va.. accompanied by Mrs. Gan dy stopped in the city at the Vin cennes Hotel, returning from Estes Park. Denver Colorado, Kansas and Missouri wh‘-»v he attended the Na tional Assembly f Boyas Y. M. C. A. He was fn conference with M. T. Bailey,, president of the Alumni As ( s.ociation of The Virginia State Col-j lege and oth°r members including V. D. Johnston. Dr. L. L. Shelton.' Attorney Jess X. Baker and Reid Thomas. | M. T Bai'ey was appointed chair man of the transportation committee hv the president of the Ft. Dearborn 1925 Marching Club, whose other committee m- nilers are H. B. YVil I'ams. Edgar Wa’ker. Tom Jackson. George W. Gr :dy. They vr'U see that efficient arrangement are made to take the hundreds of E.ku from Illinois u Tt. ii pond to the Grand I. odgo in -August The widow of James Hugo John i. >n late pus'dent of the Vv^inia State College Mrs. James H. John ston. mother of V. D. and Lowell P. J. ohnston, passed through the city from Columbuv Ohio with her daughter Dorothy, just graduated from Ohio State University- Mrs-' Johnston met many of those.who had graduated from the Institute when her husband was president. WHY WORK HARD FOR A LIVING when three hours a day making social calls for Dr. Ames will earn, you more money. Colored women, who are steady,- reliable and perman ent, who have had 30me selling exr periencte wanted" aS a&efils to tfcefy town. Apply for position today. AMES DRUG CO., 1801 Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, Florida. SUMMER HATS. Direct from Paris are these styles of summer hats The first is of braid and ribbon. The trimming, of the same material, adds a bit of novelty to the crown. ’I he second hut is' felt, slightly turned up in front. A llower is the o.nl> trimming. STARVED! * He worked and starved—Oscar Ackerstrom, University of Pennsyl vania student—worked his way through school, and starved himself on stale peanuts while his meager earnings went home to Sweden^t'o his aged mother. Then malnutrition, overwork, pneumonia, and death. The ‘university granted a posthum ous . a id ient it home to his O-DRIVE TAXI CO. 403 N. First St.. Richmond, Va. RENT A CAR! DRIVE IT YOURSELF! TOURING Cars, 10c. per mile. SEDANS, 12d. per mile. Phone Randolph 1843. You know the embarrassment inci dent to borrowing other people’s cars and the annoyance ita asking favors of those, who own cars. When you rent a car and drive it yourself, the up-kf»Aj> charges, which usually are I much more than Ihe purchase or cost Iprice of a car cea.^es, The U Drive .Taxi Company shoulders the expense. I You’ll save money by the process. (The rates quoted are close to the actual cost of a car should you own /one yourself. First Street Auto Supply is the i place to serve you for automobile ac cessories, gas and oil. If you do not [own a car. here's your opportunity. ! If you do own a car. here is the place jto secure supplies for St. Polite at tention. Supplies furnished at the most reasonable pr.'ces. Phone Randolph 1S43. U-DRIYE TAXI COMPANY, 40o North First Street. FIRST STREET AUTO SUPPLY, 40o North First Street. OTHER PEOPLE IUDGE YOU NOW BY YOUR FURNITURE When you can get FURNITURE and RUGS from an Old Established House Like JURGENS—that's known to sell the beet quality goods, just as reason able as elsewhere—why not give your 'friends a good! impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show i you our wonderful stock of home * making, comfort giving FURNITURE and RUGS and—don’t fail to ask our Salesmen about our BANKING PLAN which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months In which to pay for any purchase. chas. g. mm SI ESTABLISHED 1880. ADAMS AND BROAD 101 E. Clay 407 W. Leigh VISIT MALLORY'S MARKET, Inc Keeps everything that’s good to eat All kinds of FRESH MEATS and all kinds of FRESH FISH, POULTRY FRUITS VEGETABLES, OYSTERS GROCERIES OF ALL KINDS. Up-to-date Sanitarv Store. MALLORY’S MARKET. Inc Phone Randolph 4529. Night Call Residence, Madison 6039 THANKS. ■» ,»M* CfC* • »^«| £bts Week (By Earnest Rice McKinney) (Preston News Service.) IT WOULD BE A mighty fine thing if— [this week or next—ev ery Negro man and wo man in these United States would write a letter to Oswald Garris on Villard and The Nat tiori. The address is 2<J Vesey Street, New York City. For this is the Sixtieth Anniversary of The Na tion. You know what that means as to the period of its founding and the state of the na tion and of the Negro at that time—1865. You may guess who Oswald Garrison Villard is when vou think of that MID DLE NAME. He is the grandson of WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, and of course, there is not a Negro who does not know who GARRISON wait. It should be pos sible to say who GAR RISON IS. for he and his name should be very much alive in the think ing of every Negro child and adult. Ait any rate, Mr. Vil , lard is the grandson and I is really and simply another iGlarrison, ardent advocate of the under dog. 'champion of un popular causes. The Ne gro is an underdog and his cause is an unpopu lar one. Edwin Lawrence God kih was the founder and first editor of The Na tion. Mr. Villard says of Mr. Godkin, “He began by writing himaelf down as a ‘nigger lover’, for the the earliest issues of his paper were given to an ardent championship of the demand that the Negro be (enfranchised forthwith. He! the aris tocrat of the press, a man of highest intellect ual attainments, actual ly wanted to have every I last untutored, black freedman given the right to vote in all his rags and in hi's ignor ance. with his total lack of any training for cit izenship except that pro vided by master and overseer”. » Such was the start of The Nation. In spirit it is the same today. There is every reason to feel that as long as Mr. Yillard lives this same spirit will dominate and breathe from every page of The Nation ’ from week to week. Thus is The Nation and thus is the man who owns and edits it. But few Negroes know about this latter-day champion of their rights. This is the great shame of our racial life- We follow and hang on the words of cheap, fobacco-spitting and lying white politi cians. swallow the intel lectual swill and emo tional gush' of i/gnorant Negro preachers, wave our hats when a human cipher like Calvin Cool idge is made president and top it (all off (by crying ‘’’radical” when, perhaps, we so® a friond reading The Nation. The older Negroes will no doubt, die steeped in ■ this attitude. But it is | time that the younger , Negro broke away. It is time now that he know the difference between a gilded brick and a bar of gold. He shou^i cease to be afraid of being called “radical”. Any Negro with the sense of a beetle must b© a radi cal. That is, he should have the clear vision and the courage to look through the bunk and | tommyrot of the Repub lican Party, of the cap italist employers who feed the strife that i keeps white and black workers from getting to gether, of the white preacher who praises and encourages our ‘sim ! pie childlike faith’, of (the white platform wind jammer who tells us— with tongue and cheek —of our wonderful pro gress. I i I There is but one white man and but one black man worth following. That is the white man or black man who be , lieves in the actual ! brotherhood of all men; who believes in and ! practices basic human equality;— intellectual, social, economic and po litical. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD is such a ma» and THE NATION Is his mouthpiece. BE INFORMED-READ THE PLANET COLORFUL NEWS “MOVIES” i HEROES AND HEROINES. 3 KAPITAL KLAN KAPERS. By “THE CAMERA.MAN.' (Preston News Service) MR. “ABOLITIONIST” WRITES. 4 “I HEARD”. 4 HEROES AND HEROINES. \ „ ‘‘Attend to that little girl, first , said Oscar T. Daniels. Negro Porter of the Pullman Company, as he refused first aid of the doc tors who sought to ease his scalding steam burns following the horrible wreck, on June 16, of the Erie Special, near Rockport, N. J. The physicians heeded Daniel’s command and upon returning to his side found the Negro hero dead., He had given his • last full measure of devotion that others might live. While memories of Daniel's funeral are still fresh, there comes news of the bravery of a nine-year-old colored girl, of Hagerstown, Md. who on July i, flagged a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train just in time to avert a fifty-foot drop down the mountain side, sav ing perhaps, the forty precious lives on board. The name of the little heroine has not yet been learned, but Engineer Albert B. Haller states it is probable she averted a terrible loss of life. , ? Tom Lee, Oscar J. Danieis, the nin.year ' old girl of today; Roberts and his comrades of World War fame, Crispus Attucks and all the way back to Simon the Cvrenian, who ^ helped Jesus carry the cross, black heroes and heroines have adorned civilization’s exploits of bravery. In war, in 'peace and amid trials, when the souls of men are crying alottd black men and women have risen to the su i preme test when one faces the terrible priv ilege of laying down his life for his friend. And yet there are those like General Bullard, ! who says that the Negro is a coward—only half a man—and they take care to give him onlv half a mart’s chance. 1 The color scheme, a barometer of alleged * superiority, measures these black heroes and heroines and their kinsmen, not by t^eir deeds but by their color. History, though, just as before, is bound to repeat itself, and restore to the oppressed of today the fullness of their rights on the morrow. Ahis dawn is w^at I •’ “supremists” fear most. lest the iron hand of retribution should clutch them within its grasp. Idle fears are these, for those w&o flee when no man pursueth. The prophecy is merely that Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hand—and that is all she is trying to do. in wrecks, in wars, in peace and into the hearts and lives of her fellowbeings. And sooner or ! later the “selfists” must come to know that God’s prophecies never fail. : J % m » MR. “ABOLITIONIST” WRITES. Writing in the New York World of July I, 1925, Mr. “Abolitionist” goes to the bat on the question of race segregation. Says he: “It is an error to assume that segregation is an evil for the colored race. Rather, should the Negroes welcome it as it affords them an opportunity to 'demonstrate their 'power to stand alone and their capaciy to function alone and unaided in all life’s activities equally with the white man. The Negro only degenerates by his contact with the white race. Alone, he can fight against the evil influence of those who undermine his character and morality in order ta have him under their sway”. Somewhere in the dim and ancient past it is recorded, notwithstanding Mr. Darwin to the contrary, that God nlade man in His own image—not men, hut MAN—and in the ages since then it has been recorded how man be came so dissatisfied with himself that Cain slew Abel, men warred /against men. 'and sOlfishnsss against bigotry', following the orig inal sin of Adam, superseded the scheme of God for man to live with man in peace and harmony. The trend of theory, at least, is for man again to Christianize himself and live peaceable with his brother, as his brother s keeper and loving his neighbor as himself. Race segregation is the baneful barrier of some men to place self upon a pedestal and the other fellow at its base. It is not tliaf the Negro does not yearn for the full chance to function as a race group that leads him to eschew segregation. It is not that he objects to his own company that he dislikes the Jim Crow coach or the segregated com munity. Nor is it that he disdains the op portunity to demonstrate his group power. It is, howevo, the shroud of inferiority' which ever and :.:on accompanies the white rr.t.is s■ m t.'x of *e r-rga^en. This coupled with selfishness and bigotry which have ever ac companied sole group alignment, together with the reciprocal benefits which, under Christian civilization, play .hack and forth be tween races, makes segregation an undesirable policy. Then, too, were all the racial increments of America’s melting pot of human beings to segregate themselves from each other, where in the name of Heaven, would come the chance to exchange the emoluments of Christ ianized and civilized progression? Were the Jews, the Germans, the Italians and all the other racial groups selfishly to separate them selves from each other, what would become of the descendants of the Oglethorpes, Peter Mincit and Roger Williams, all of mhom are supposed to be promoting American welfare this day and time? What would become of, ' the great interlocking American financial sys tem, her mighty citadels of education and her amazing social power? Coalition is what makes any nation strong, for in unity there is strength. And were Negroes iike smallpox, the present trend of segregation for them would have our unqualified approval. But they are living beings, created in the image of God, whose intentions are always being interpreted by advocates of segregation, but whose acts, though, speak louder than words, all the way from Genesis to Gethsemane. % & '9 KAPITAL KLAN KAPERS. Press reports are heralding the August parade of the Ku KIux Klan, to be held in the Nation’s Capital; and soothsayers are ad vancing divers motives for the 150,000 kl^ns men who will march up the famous Pennsyl vania Avenue, triumphantly traversed by General Grant, Admiral Dewey, presidential heroes and other national characters. Some say the klan kraves publicity; others, that it is trying to create a halo of psychological strength equal to that which hovered over the recent parade of the Holy Name Society. And fatalists say that the klan is bent upon letting the world know that it is, at '.cast os tensibly in favor in America. In the wake of press announcements pro tests are beginning to pour in upon the Dis trict Government against the public spectacle of the Invincible Empire. The local N. A. A. C. P. headed by the stalwart Lafe M. Hershaw has vigorously protested the klan karavan. And rumbles are being heard in Roman Catholic circles and in the synagogues. Others, alleging that public interest is being jeopardized, are registering their adverseness to the coming memoirs of reconstruction days. Just how much pressure the protests will bring to bear no one can say. The District Gov ernment remains adamant, under the law, and of course, no one can question its good faith or sincerity. Nevertheless the bad taste remains in the mouth of Washington, where it is realized that exploitation is to be made of the organi zation which President Grant so vigorously quelled, in the bleak days of yestertime: and it is difficult to realize the grade of consist ency which permits the invisible order to court cheers of approbation from a sector of the generous public. The fact remains that pre cedents of Niles, Ohio and other places where the klan has met under similar circumstances, do not brook much good to follow in its wake and despite statute law which may permit the klan to tread upon Washington’s most his toric street, caution and care, it would seem should lead the District Government to bal ance the good and the harm, as the case may be, which may come from the descendants of the hood and gown. And during such a consideration we think, the burden of proof rests with the klan to prove itself ioo per cent American rather than its foes to prove that it is not,—at least this should be the case if history means anything, for history usually repeats itself. m Vs “I HEARD" I heard Jim Jones had left his wife! that Smith had whipped his kid: that Carter pulled a carving knife and awful damage did. I heard our minister drank booze; and had some fearful sprees; that Ellder Jones lets curse words loose, and said that Hell would freeze. I heard my wife was riding ’round the town with different men; that Green some cash was hiding which should put him in the pen. I heard that for ten bucks apiece some gold bricks you could buy; that Mary’s cousin’s uncle’s niece would cheat, and steal and lie.. In fact, of evil things, I heard enough to fill a book; ’most everybody had some word to say of crook or hook. The good things, tho were never told of any friends I claimed. Their valorous acts were left to mould. Their good deeds left unnamed. Cl) L|7V VF^ (Successor to • ■ • nrtl LJj a. Hayes (Si Son) 727 N. 2d St., Richmond, Va. LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN FUNERAL EQUIPMENT. Automobiles Furnished for Funerals, Social Affairs or Short or Long- Distance Trips—Fine Caskets—Chapel Service Free. Country Orders Solicited—Prompt and Satisfactory Service Phone MJadison 2778. Day or N’i&lit Calls Answered Promptly. EDW. STEWART 203 S. SECOND STREET DEALER IN FANCY GROCERIES. FRESH MEATS, VEGETABLES, FISH AND OYSTERS. Richmond, Va. 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