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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1927
Governor Bryd says the price of
gas is too high and practically everj
motorist agrees with him.
A brazen woman is an abomination
to a cultured man and a rude man is
abhorred by a cultured woman.
You cannot win by being disre
spectful and uncouth*in your manner.
Politeness will win in the long run.
We may not get to heaven this
year or the next, but we shall get
there some time, if we weary not in
well doing.
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Ocean beach bathing costumes
have been ransferred inland and the
females are wearing them on our
city streets.
Modesty in women is still “a pearl
of great price” with some men, but
the majority of them do not seem
to set any value upon it.
When v e abuse all white people,
we are showing little sense and no
judgment and this is true, when some
white people form similar opinions
and take similar action in dealing
with us.
We have had two instances of
white men in the State of Virginia
being arrested for killing other white
men in the defense of their own
homes. The fact that both were sub
jected to needless expense is to be
regretted.
The rule of law, which is not the
rule of reason, is that every man
charged with a criminal offense shall
prove his innocence and not that his
accusers shall prove his guilt. This
is one of the peculiar things in which
“the whole world is upside down.” It
will adjust itself, however, either
during this century or at the begin
ning of the next.
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We have received “Norfolk’s
Thirty-aix Per Cent Colored,” al
booklet compiled and published by
that great weekly publication, The
Norfolk Journal and Guide. It deals
with the homes, churches, schools,
business enterprises, occupations and
general social and economic status of
the sixty-four thousand colored^
citizens of that locality. We are suf-,
fused with genuine admiration of this ■
remarkable production.
The National Baptist Convention
at Detroit was a great success. The
selection of that great Baptist divine.
Rev. L. K. Williams, D. D., has en
sured the success of this organization
and emphasized the fact that able
men in the chair will ensure the suc
cess of any enterprise. We have
feared t^heugh that the onerous duties
imposed upon- this remarkable char
acter may undermine his health and
lead him to an untimely grave. It
will be necessary that the work be so
divided as to lighten the load of re
sponsibility now upon his shoulders.
We direct attention to the great
Radio Show, now sponsored by the
Richmond, Va., News Leader. The
committee has specified Friday, Sep
tember 23. 1927, as the day for col
ored people. It will be a highly edu
cational exhibit and will richly repay
a visk there. Hardy’s Orchestra has
been employed to furnish music and
we urge all of our people to go there.
The location is on Broad and Mea
dow Streets.
The story comiRET from Norton,
Va., where Sadie Mendil, a white
woman, confessed that she murdered
Bertie Lindsey, ef Knoxville, a crime
for which Maurice Mays, a colored
man went to' the electric chair pro
testing his innocence reads like a
novel. Inasmuch as the colored man
had paid the penalty for the crime,
no charge of murder could be entered
against her. She frankly confesses
that she dressed herself up in men’s
clothes, blackened her face and shbt
the woman, whom she had tracked,
in company with her husband.
She said her name was Mrs. John
Roddy. It has since been brought out
that the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People em
ployed atttorneys to defend the col
ored man, but without successful re
sult. As horrible as this case appears
to be, it is but one of many. It is
practically certain that thousands of
innocent colored people are serving
time in Southern prisons for crimes
that they never committed. This is
due to the practice, which makes it
essential that a person charged with
crime shall prove their innocence.
Some way and somehow, the pray
ers of the righteous will prevail and j
justice will be accorded to all of the
people in this great land of ours.
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Outstrip Former Shows.
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The 1927 show promises to far out
strip its two predecessors in size,
character of exhibits and entertain
ment features. There will be attrac
tions for men and women, young and
old, and children. In addition, the
show has been extended one day in
order that the colored people of Rich
mond may have an opportunity to
visit it. The fifth and closing day
has been set aside for them.
Finishing touches on preliminary
details were added yesterday at a
meeting of all the chairmen of the
dealers’ committees and representa
tives of The News Leader.
Booths arfe being constructed and
decorations placed in the big build
ing formerly occupied by the Used
Car Exchange, Meadow Street, near
Broad. This work is being pressed in
order that every detail will be com
plete when the doors are thrown open
to the public.
daily Prize Awards.
Apart from expensive and com-,
plete entertainment features, public
interest is expected to be heightened
by the daily award of prizes, valued
in an aggregate at more than $1,000.
Nearly all of the exhibitors have
agreed to contribute the prizes, which
will be given away. Each will per
tain to radio, and most of them
doubtless will be eagerly sought by
ail spectators. They will include re
ceiving sets, loud-speakers and other
equipment.
B. H. Hoffman, chairman of the
publicity committee, said today that
the following firms already have
agreed to donate prizes, principally
receivers:
Dabney & Bugg, Hoffman & Good
man, Howell Brothers, the Halladay
Company, The Kaufman Siore, Price
Brothers, Tower-Binford. Uthers are
expected to swell the list.
Mr. Hoffman stated that local deal
ers are reporting the arrival of new
model receivers and the latest thing
in equipment. Scores of different
kinds of sets will be on display. This
year's show is expected to eclipse that
of 192G because the Used Car Ex
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Personals and Briefs
The Elks staged a grand affair at
Friends Orphan Asylum last Sunday
with Mr. Carey Wheaton in charge.
The well-known Mr. Arthur R.
Smith, formerly of this city, called
on us this week. He has been visit
ing friends here. He was accom
panied by his wife. He resides now
in Brooklyn, N. Y., and is doing well.
He subscribed to the Planet, paying
cash for same.
Mr. Garrett D. Rawling, of the
Baltimore Afro-American, called on
us.
Mr. W. A. Jackson, of Newport,
R. I., called on us.
Read the Planet and advertise in
the same. We shall be pleased to
handle notices relating to entertain
ments, church items, etc. We help
you and you should help up.
The Planet will be delivered at
your door each and every week for
5 cents per copy. We specialize on
items of interest to colored folks.
Rev. William Revies, of Kimball,
j W. Va., called on us recently, also
Rev. J. S. Daniel, of E. Spencer, N.
C.
Rev. P. L. Barksdale, of Halifax,
Va., was in the city recently.
Mr. W. A. Jackson, of Newport,
R. I., called on us.
Miss Bessie Scott returned to the
city last Tuesday afternoon after
spending the summer in Bayhead, N.
J. *
Mr. Ernest Baker, of New York
City, is spending his vacation here,
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Barrett.
■Mr. William B. Smith, the popular
tonsorial artist, is indisposed at his
residence, 70ff W. Marshall Street.
He is improving.
The Improved Order of Shepherds
was in session at Newport News,
Va., this week.
Offices suitable for a physician and
a dentist are rentable in the Me
chanics Bank Building. Messrs. Pol
lard and Bagby and the Turken Co.
may be consulted.
All who have secured a copy of
Webster’s Dictionary express them
selves as satisfied. You had better
order your copy today.
The Planet is on sale in Wilming
ton, Delaware, at Mr. Robert
Goodin’s place of business, 1214
Walnut Street.
Rev. T. J. King, D. D., pastor of
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pittsburgh,
Pa., is progressing in his work there
and has been given an assistant pas
tor. I
It has recently been circulated that
Deacon Samuel Brown, formerly of
the Fifth Street Baptist Church, and
who removed to Boston, is dead. Rev.
D. L. Cosby, formerly of this city,
but who went to New Jersey, is dead
also.
Mrs. Robert Blackmoie, of Hart
ford, Conn., sends us an encouraging
letter.
The Grand United Order of Moses
met at Charlotte Courthouse, Va., re
cently. Ten thousand visitors are
said to havip been present. The very
able Rev. J. Murray Jeffress is the
founder. This was the 24th annual
gathering.
Ma Rainey is giving an entertain
ment the True Reformers Hall
next week with her fine orchestra and
Jazz Hounds, as they are called. She
is said to be the mother of the Blues.
She and her orchestra will give a
midnight performance ort the Savoy
Roof Garden, Mechanics Bank Build
ing, Monday night on the stroke of
twelve.
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Mrs. Janie Hayes, wife of Mr.' C.
P. Hayes, was painfully injured Sun
day afternoon, September 10th, when
she accidentally wrenched off the
spicket to a hydrant at her residence,
the jagged edge cutting an 1 lacerat
ing her right arm at the wrist. She
lost .much blood before the wound
could be properly attended. Urs. Gil
oin and White rendefekF service. She
has since been confined to her room,
i but the wound is healing nicely.
NOTED PREACHERS HERE.
A great many noted preachers at
tended the Lott Carey Convention
that convened at the Sixth Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. Rev. J. R. Vanland
mgham, pastor of Fountain Baptist
Phurch. entertained the following:.
Rev. W. C. Williamson, of Durham,!
N C.. preached at the Fomraift Bap
tist Church; also Rev. Eh*. J. A. Lewis,
of Wilmington, N. C., preached
Thursday night. Rev. T>r. J. H. j
Moore, recording secretary of the
Lott Carey Convention, preached at
the Fountain Baptist Church Sunday,
morning ?t 11 A. M. Rev. Dr. W. M.
Revies Kimball. West Virginia,
preached at 3:00 P. M. Rev. Dr. W.
D. Lee, of Connecticut,, preached at
7:30 P. M. Rev. Dr. Revies remained
over in the city and preached at the
31st Street Church, and also Mt.
Olive Baptist Church. Rev. Revies
and Rev. Vanlandingham motored to
Durham, N. C., spent three days.
They had a pleasant trip.
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The Imperial Order of King David
will hold its 18th anniversary at the
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| Clav and Adams Streets. Sunday,
i September 25, 1927, at 3:30 P. M.
i An interesting program will he pre
I sented and the public is cordially in
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I Rev. Junius L. Taylor will preach
' the rormon.
i All members are requested to meet
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FIRE.
(Chicago World)
Texans made a determined, fight
during the recent convention of
Pythians in this city to have the next
biennial gathering of the order in
Dallas, Texas.. Richardson, militant
editor of the Houston Informer, and
; Rice, the scholarly standout man of
the Dallas Express, came loaded with
invitations from, everybody,. white
and hlack,, who. amounts, to, much in
their sections of the State* for the
Tythians to come down. Promises
were made that white Texans would
treat the delegates all right, that, in
fact, white Texans would be glad to
have the great, host of men and wom
en in. its: midst.
But Texas did. not get the conven
tion.. Na, not even after Grand Chan
I cellar Willis,, of the State of Texas,
‘made one 'of the most impassioned
and brilliant speeches, of the convex
tion, promising his brother Pythians
i as square a deal in Texas as they
1 migfct get anywhere, if they would
1 only come. Supreme Chancellor
i Green arose t© speak after Willis, and
! defeated the Texans. Green is from
■ Louisiana. As a resulit of his speech,
I the delegates lined up against the
prejudice of the South and sent the
next convention to a northern city,
where the visitors will be treated
fairly; more fairly than they would
be in Dallas, Texas.
It is to laugh! As bad as Texas
may be, there is no large city in that
large State that treats Negroes any
worse than Indianapolis does. When
the prejudiced cities of the so-called
North are mentioned; such cities as
[Cincinnati, 9t. Louis, Washington,
1 Baltimore and Indianapolis, Indiana
polis is always spoken of first because
Indianapolis is the worst. There is
only one thing that a Negro can do
in Indianapolis, so far as public ac
commodations are concerned, that he
cannot do in far Southern cities—
1 ride where he pleases on street cars..
But be can’t go in the theaters, to the |
best lectures, into cafes, and other i
public places. He is segregated in
every way that the law will permit. I
i Indianapolis is the capital of the j
’spirit of the Ku Klux Klan in the,
North. We have been in Dallas and
t we have been in Indianapolis. If it
were *ur convention, we would pre
fer Dallas. It’s hard to understand,
men who would take a convention to
Indianapolis, if race prejudice were
the chief issue involved. It almost
looks as though there were some
other issue involved. It almost looks
as though there were some other
issle. The supreme* chancellor made
the speech against Texas and the su
preme chancellor knows Willis is very
strong and very rich, even though he
is in. Texas. The next time Texas
seeks the convention we advise the
leaders to. convey to, the supreme
chancellor their endorsaaent of him:
for another term.
FULTON. NOTES.
Rev. A. D. Clarke, one of our own
bays, delivered a very- helpful sernron
in the morning and at the evening
service.. Live si'ngihg was had by tfre
choir, under the leadership of M”.
Beverly Valentine,, ttfce assistant Seed
er.
Tomorrow the Rev. J. #. Wright
will preach for us. Come out early
and get a good seat.
Tomorrow the Rev. C. B. Jeffer
son wilT preach at the Union Baptist
Church, South Richmond. Tine pas
tor, Rev. L. C. Garland, has requested
the Rev. Jefferstan to be with his good
people on the third and fmoxth Sun
days.
A great spiritual feast has thus
ended at Shrlah, the Rev. Daniel Har
grove spared no pains in delivering
the Gospel to those present. His ad
dress is 1608 Idlewood Avenue, City.
Rev. C. A. Cobbs, the Grand
Chaplain of the I. <X S. & D. of R.
at this writing is attending the Grand
Session of the Order in Newport
News, Va. Our pastor is now on his
vacation. Deacon A. D. Daniel is at
tending the same session. I
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FLORENCE. S- C.
The following young people from
Marion passed through Florence re
cently en route for Orangeburg, S.
C., to attend the State College: I
Mr. Terry Nichols, Miss Lucy B.
Godbolt, Mr. Deleau Gibson, Alford
Elleroe.
Rev. A. A. Chaffer, of Trinity Bap
tist Church, this city, has a call in
Philadelphia, Pa., and wiH leave us
►Moore St. Bapt. Church,
^West Leigh St., between Kinney and Bowe Sts
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Mrs. Marcella Millikete, member of
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city recently, returning from New
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Rev. Simmond Mack, a recent
graduate of Morris College, at Sum
ter, S. C., soon after which lie was
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