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VOL XL.VII NO. 51^ *
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* RICHMOND, VA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1930
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Four Agencies Are
The Community Fund Campaign
which began October and continues
through November 10th, is the sev
enth annual Campaign for the rais
ing of funds with which to carry on
the work of the social agehcics for
the coming year. Experience has
shown that this method is far more
efficient and less wasteful than the
former plan of tug days and separate
cv.inpaigns, such as were conducted
prior to 1924. Each campaign has
been successful in securing a larger
number of givers than were seemed
in the previous year, showing a great
er support of this plan of rinanerng
the city’s social needs year by year.
Because of the unemployment
which has prevailed throughout the
year, a larger number of persons will
have to be cared for by these agen
cies, thus making it necessary for
those whose work has not been de
pendent upon the whims of business,
to give more liberally that the work
of the agencies may go on unim
peded.
mere are tmriy-mne agencies m
the Lund, four of which are staffed
entirely by colored workers. Three
others have colored workers on their
staff, while thirteen additional agen
cies do work among Negroes. The
four colored agencies are:
Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y. W.
C. A.
Colored Playground and Recrea
tion Association.
Friend’s Orphan Asylum or Negro
Child Welfare Work.
Richmond Urban League.
Those having colored workers are:
The Family Service Society.
Instructive Visiting Nurses’ Asso
ciation.
Travelers’ Aid Society of Virginia.
The additional agencies doing work
among Negroes are:
Boy Scouts of Richmond.
Bureau of Catholic Charities.
Children’s Aid Society.
Children’s Memorial Clinic.
Commission on Inter-racial Co-op
eration.
Council of Social Agencies.
County Welfare Work.
Medical College of Virginia—Out
Patient Department.
Richmond Health Association.
Richmond Safety Council.
Slavation Army, Inc.
Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals.
State Young Men’s Christian As
sociation.
The 1930 budgets of the four col
ored agencies total $24,800, while
it is estimated that fully $55,000 of
the fund is expended among Negroes.
The goal of this year’s campaign is
$572,640, of which the colored div-i
sion has been asked to raise $12,000.
This quota is equally divided between
the general solicitatio nand the spe
cial gifts section of the colored divi
sion. _
State Elk Leaders Retort
tD Wifcw’0
Replying to a statement made by
Mr. Ferry W. Howard, which recent
ly appeared in the Baltimore Afro
American, the Pittsburgh Courier
and other colored weeklies, the per
sons named by Mr. Howard as mem
bers of his “Down and Out Club’
authorized the following public state
ment:
“The ‘spleenful’ statement of Mr.
Howard, former Assistant to the
Attorney General of the United
States, the unhorsed patronage boss
of Mississippi, but now the $3,000-a
year Legal Adviser of the Elk’s office
holding and office bartering trust, is
as ‘loosely drawn’ as were his plead
ings in his suit against the Virginia
Elks. How the mighty has fallen!
Will the eminent lawyer-politician
whc was forced out of lucrative and
as a last resort a gratuity at the
important Federal position to accept
hands of his benefactors, Messrs.
Wilson and Houston, address his dis
tinguished attention the resolution
passed unanimously at the Trenton.
N. J., Conference and plead to the
indictments therein. Will the lawyer
or his reliable informer deny that
both Judge Henry and P. G. E. R.
Wibercan sat in the sub-committee
which drafted the resolution? Will
he deny tnat Dotn oi mese genuBnwu
were present when the resolution was
submitted to the conference, che
members of which filled every avail
able seat in the auditorium and gal
lery of Sunlight Lodge’s Elk’s Home?
Will he deny the fact that neither
of these gentlemen made an protest
nor offered any opposition to the
adoption of the resolution? Upon
whose authority does Mr. Howard
state that a great reception was re
cently tendered the Grand Exalted
Ruler in Richmond, Va.? Does he
reier to the dedication of the new
home of Capitol City Lodge, upon
which occasion Mr. Jamse T. Carter
wa sthe principal speaker and guest
of honor, which the name of the
Grand Exalted Ruler does not even
appear on the program? W nat ex
cuse has the spokesman to offer for
the depleted membership, the empty
Grand Lodge Treasury, and the 100
per cent increase in the taxation bf
subordinate lodges? How does he
explain the fact that the Grand Tem
ple has outstripped the Grand Lodge
of Elks numerically and financially,
notwithstanding the fact that the
Grand Lodge arbitrarily levied a ten
cents per capita tax upon the mem
bers of the subordinate Temples,
without giving them any compensa
tory benefits? Another case of un
warranted and unjustified taxation
without representation. Is the offi
cial spokesman in favor of th erpopo
sition to unload the Washington
I Eagle upon the Grand Lodge of Elks
thereby adding another 15 cents tax
to the tax burdens of subordinate
lodge members?
The brotherhood wants to know
what the Official Spokesman has to
say concerning these conditions ex
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DuBois and White Speak in Hard-Fought Ohio Ejection Campaign.
New York, Oct. 24.—Senator Ros
coe C. McCulloch has declined a
challenge made to him to debate with
Walter White, Acting Secretary of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, on the
subject of his vote to seat Judge
John J. Parker on the Supreme
Court. The challenge was issuecTby
C. E. Dickinson, President of the
Ohio State Conference of N. A. A.
C. P. branches, which have unani
mously voted to oppose Senator Mc
Culloch’s candidacy.
In the aggressive anti-McCulloch
fight which the N. A. A. C. P. is
leading in Ohio, Dr. W. E. B. Du
Bois, editor of the Crisis, and Wal
ter White, Acting Secretary, are
touring the state. Dr. DuBois is to
address a mass meeting in Columbus
on Oct 26, and Mr. White left New
York last night for a speaking tour
with the following addresses sched
uled: 1
Dayton, Oct. 26: Cincinnati, Oct
27; conference with Negro leaders
in Columbus, Oct 28; Cleveland,
Oct. 29; Akron, Oct 30; and Colum
bus, Nov. 2.
Meanwhile, evidence continues to
pour into the N. A. A. C. P. National
Office that Ohio colored people are
thoroughly aroused over the issue of
Senator McCulloch’s pro-Parker vote
and tha tthe masses of colored vot
ers in Ohio are standing firm against
him. The N. Y. Times, perhaps the
most powerful daily in the country,
yesterday on its' editorial page print
ed n letter setting forth the attitude
of the N. A. A. C. P. and other edi
tors are following the situation close
ly, the Wheeling. W. Va., Register,
for example, publishing an editorial
under the caption; “Ohio Negroes
Aroused."
Reports to the N. A. A. C. P. state
that the defection of a few Negro
“leaders,” to whom inducements
Noted Professor’s Views On
Dr. Moton’s Recent Address
Prof. C. H. Pearson
All day long iuesday Uct. ze, lair
minded white people who, as far as
the Negroes are concerned, recognize
that conditions are out of joint, to
gether with a few invited Negroes
uiscussed, planned, and resolved to
attempt an adjustment of those condi
tions. To climax the procedure, and
perhaps, to point a way out, Dr. Rob
ert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee
Inst., and successor to the late Booker
. U ashington,xwas invited to address
the public meeting. Dr. Moton came,
and to the utter disappointment of t
.arge majority of Negroes, and per
'.o the surprise of many whites
we were virtualy told that we need
not be over anxious about the rela
tions between the races: “The Neg
roes in America are the most civilized
and the most prosperous in the
world. They have reached this state
through their contact with Anilo
Saxons in America, and while they
were brought here against their win
and have not always been able to
maintain peace with their white bre
thren, they should be grateful to God
tor this contact”.
It is pharisaic to be grateful be
cause we are the most civilized and
•■he *v\oct prosperous Negroes in the
world. It is a strange interpretation
n uoa s nature to even talk of thank
ing him for our contact with a race
whio for centuries kept us in physical
•lavery and bondage, and even today
enslaves our wills, shackles our minds,
stiffles our ambitions, and dares us
to look up as men. Of course there are
and have been individuals and groups
in the w’hite race who feel and ha1"5
'elt the pinch of the Negroes’ condi
tion almost as severly as the Ne 'roe*
do, and these are the groups which
make up the inter-racial gatherings,
and for a Negro to come before such
a group, and in the face of the very
conditions which they are trying to
vem.cdv and say that the Negroes are
well treated* and they should thank
God for it is to commit a sin against
that race.
“I am glad that I am an American
Negro, and live in the South”, says
Dr. Moton. Strange statements, these
are, coming from him who took such
a manly stand against the Klu Klux
Klan, who publicly reprimanded Gen
eral Smutts for an epithet against the
ace, and who expresses su"h manly
sentiments though “What The Negro
Thinks”.
Such statements are platform hash
which have lost all of its seasoning.
It happens that “white” is the Ameri
can standard, and any other color
suffers in comparison with it. Beside
the American standard “wdiite”, the
whitest black is condemned, and the
blackest “white” is rated. Indeed,
black in America is a handicap, and
for one to say that he is glad that he
is so handicapped means that he is
either dallying with sentiment, or is
mentally deficient.
But why this “wool-pulling” which
insults the intelligence of one race
and underrates the capacity for en
joyment of the other race? There are
enough fair-minded and tolerant
white men and women in every com
munity to lLten to the truth, cold and
startling as it is, and then attempt to
attain that truth.
It is doubted whether America’s
way of race adjustment will, or
should ever become the model for race
adjustments the world over. The race
problems will never be soived by the
mere toleration of races coming to
,ether and subscribing in a perfunc
.ory way to the principles underlying
amicable inter-racial living. The roots
of our problems are deeper « °n sim
ple discussion-contacts, and until we
are willing to go to the roots all else
is simply putting on the livery oi
brotherhood for dress parade.
Certainly Dr. Moton said some good
chines, as he always does, but the
wounds that are deepest must bleed,
.nfliited by surgeon or friend, and
many of us went home bleeding,
wounded at the hand of our friend,
and feeling that the address had been
palliative, platitudinous, rather than
.actual, remedial.
Three Injured In
Auto-Car Smash
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Brown,
1276 Lakeview Avenue and Eddie
Hopkins, 1427 Claiborne Street were
accident victims of a street car-auto
crash at the intersection of Belmont
and Grove avenues last Monday night,
it was reported that the southbound
street car on Belmont avenue, opera
ted by T. W. Wilcox, 113 N. Robinson
St., was traveling at a speed estimat
ed at appoximately thirty miles per
hour at the intersection, when the
Chevrolet sedan going east on Grove
ave., and driven by Charles H. Brown
crashed into the front part of the
street car driving the motor back in
m the front of the automobile and
sending the hood crashing back
through the windshield.
Mrs. Brown suffered injuries to her
legs and arms and a bruise above the
leit eye. Charles Brown driver of che
machine was hurt in his right side,
right leg and was severely cut in the
forehead, necessitating the taking of
six stitches.
Hopkins is in a serious condition at
the Retreat For . The Sick Hospital.
He suffered a probable fracture of the
*kull when the fore portion of his
head was torn open. All three were
taken to the Retreat For The Sick,
w'here they were treated for their in
juries. Mrs. Brown was able to leave
the hospital Tuesday noon, and Mr.
Brown the following day. They are
recuperating while Hopkins is still in
a serious condition.
WIDOW OF LYNCHERS’ VICTIM TO RECEIVE TWO THOUSAND
DOLLARS
wainaua, s. u., tAXNi'j Mrs. Mi
ma Green will receive the sum of
two thousand dollars from Oconeee
County for the lynching of her hus
band here some months ago, accord
ing o a direct verdict rendered in
civil court here Tuesday afternoon.
The payment is in keeping under
a South Carolina law, whicr pro
vides such compensation when a vic
tim of a mob is proved to have been
innocent of th ecrime which caused
his lynching. Atttorneys for the
county attempted to prove that
Green was guilty of the crime but
th eattorney for the plaintiff off-set
their arguments and convinced the
court that he was the innocent victim
of a mob of angry white men and
Judge Mann rendered his decision in
favor ofGreen'swidow.
Allen Green was lynched here fol
lowing his arrest charged with at
tacking a white woman. The mob
which stormed the jail was alleged
to hav ebeen led by the mayor of
Walhalla and the night policeman.
Sheriff Jackson attempted to re
sist the mob and was* Struck down by
one of the members and injured to
the extent that he had to be carried
to the hospital for treatment for
more than a week.
At tne time ot the supposed at
tack there was an opinion on the
part of the officials that he was in
nocent of the crime with which he
was charged, and it was this feeling
that perhaps caused the sheriff to
believe that it was the prevailing
sentiment and that there would be no
attempt made to ilynch mim. A
few hot-headed whites, however,
changed this opinion, and the sheriff
was caught off his guard and Green
was lynched.
Immediately following the lynch
ing Governor Richards'cent a group
of investigators in this county and
several white men, including the
mayor, were arrested and indicted
The trial was set for the summer
term of court but was postponed
when the court decided that the
weather was too hot to sit in a
crowded couurtroom and listen to
lengthy arguments. The prosecut
ing ‘attorney agreed and the trial
will be during the forthcoming court
session.
When the recent case was tried,
which resulted in the $2,000 award
to Mrs. Green, the courtroom was
crowded with white citizens and the
action of the court won the approv
al of the majority of those assem
bled.
One Killed, Three Injured
In Norfolk Auto Smash
LYNCH LAW AT WORK
Clerks,dalrj.l Miss., Oct.— (CNA)
Tom Hill a 5-year old tenant farm
er has been framed up on a fake
charge of “rape”. In order to con
vict Hill the more easily the court
room was filled with guards, to
create the impression that Hill is a
dangerous character. The trial is
being carried on behind closed doors.
New Orleans, La., Oct.—286 Neg
ro workers have been arrested here
and are being held in jail because of
a false rumor spread to the effect
that a Negro stole $30 from a white
business n an. The wholesale round
up and indescriminate arrests of
Negro workers is continuing.
Detroit, Mich., Oct.— Absolutely I
without provocation the police enter
ed the home of a Negro worker and
started to beat up the whole family,
killing husband when he objected to
the pol’ce forcing his wife to go to
the police station scantily dressed.
Machine Crashes
Into Freight Train
Norfolk, Va., Oct. 28.— (Staff Cor
respondent.)—Mr. Edward Lomax,
28, was almost instantly killed and
three other persons seriously injured
Sunday night, when the automobile
in which they were riding crashed
into the rear end of a Norfolk and
Southern Railroad freight train a
short distance south of Moyock, N.
C.
The party was returning to their
home in Norfolk. The injured in
cluded Mrs. Sarah Southall, 48; Rog
ers Matthews, 2, and Mrs. Lomax, 23.
Reports from St. Vincent’s Hospital,
where they were carried, stated that
Mrs. Lomax and Mrs. Southall were i
in a serious condition, but the Mat-1
thews boy had a fair chance of re
covery.
Chancellors Hold
Last Sunday the past Chancellors
Council of Virginia Pythians held its
regular reunion and fraternal feast
was enjoyed by the Pythians present.
Dr. A. A. Tennant and Deputy Jesse
Randall were the moving spirits in
having the meeting here. Grand
Chancellor Thomas H. Reid of Nor
folk was the principal speaker and
rave much encouagement to the
Richmond group. Several Richmond
Past Chancellors joined the Council
“Tlie Church At Hie Sat”
Discussed By lusters
By Jodi Simpson.
At a meeting of the Baptist Min
isters’ Conference, held at Ebene
zef Baptist Church, on Monday, Oct;
27th, the topic up for discussion was
“The Church at the Bar of Public
Opinion,” the author of which was
Dr. W. L. Ransome, Editorial Scribe
for the Richmond Plant, the journal
in which the article in question was
published, and to which certain mem
bers o fthe conference objected.
After the devotionals, which were
led by Rev. J. H. Binford, and the
scripture lesson by Rev. Harris, and
other preliminaries incident to all
meetings were over, the confernce
went into the discussion of its topic.
Dr. W. L. Ransome, president of
the conference, turned the chair over
to Dr. W. T. Johnson, vice-president,
who preside dduring the discussion,
which was conducted on a question
and answer basis, Dr. Ransome be
ing questioned as^ to the different
points raised in the article, a few of
which are here related:
Point No| 1, What do you mean
by indiscretion on the part of pas
tors?
The Doctor related many instances
in which ministers had acted indis
creetly, and said ,that there were
many more instances that he couid
cite, but that they were so close home
that he would be guilty of indiscre
tion if he should name them. Score
ONE for Ransome.
No. 2, What do you mean by lack
of training and executive ability?
The Doctor declared that the min
ister, in order to lead the congrega
tions which today contain a large
percentage of high school students,
must needs know more than the con
gregation; that he was in favor of
college trained men in the pulpits.
Score TWO. Ransome.
xno. d, wnat is to Decome oi me
pastors of the weak and smalt
churches which you urge to consol
idate?
Some will find other charges, oth
ers will find other employment; the
fittest will survive. Score THREE
for Ransome.
Point No. 4, Have not the small
churches as much right to exist as
the larger ones?
Too easilv won to mention. Score
FOUR for Ransome.
Point No. 5, Are you opposed to
all forms of begging?
Answers in the affirmative, citing
many reasons for same, which were
v/ell taken. Score FIVE for Ran
some.
The two other points: The pastor
as a factor and the cure for these
conditions, were as easily won by
Dr. Ransome. One man very frank
ly stated that he had been guilty of
some of the things mentioned by Dr.
Ransome, and that he only dissented
to the publication of same, to which
Dr. Ransome renlied that: “In writ
ing of the conditions and their causes,
he could no tconscientiouslv relate
the part played by the church mem
ber and the public and cast a clonk
or blanket over the part played by
the ministers. This point was also
well taken and elicited a round of
applause.
Dr. Ransome, we presume, came
armed with his machine guns, hand
grenades, bavonet and rifle and a
service pistol: he. however, did not
have to use anvthincr but the service
nisto. no occasion being presented
for the use of the other weapons of
war. Th conference gave him a vote
of thanks, on motion of Dr. Hill, as
the nnnosition went down to an over,
wholrnjng defeat. Chalk un
rln/’.i'oiva victorv for. the PTANET
SCRIBE. DR. W. L. R4NSOMF. emi
mnt na^tor of First Baptist Church,
^outh Richmond._____
President John Steward o*
Vp\vs. who presided, welcomed the
~r>weo»ver'?. A mono- the Pvthians pre
sent. from other cit.;“S wpre • S?rs C
H. Rohinson. Jnhn Steward. .T. C Col
1 .X.
and Jack Byrd of Newport News*
o;„s r,c, w e-**? w.
E. °m.ith of W^ct Point* s?rq Tho-v>.
ca p. Mewhie. Thomas H. R.**H o-'H ,T
n. Hall of Portsmouth: Sir William
White of C«ntrpl?a. This n-petfnjj Wflei
of far reaching importance and means
much for th° advancement of Pvthi
anism in Richmond and Virginia.
Noted Loader Says
White People Unfair
To Negroes In 1)1
By Staff Correspondant
Dr Robert R. Moton, Principal of
Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
bama, spoke tn an audience of white
and colored people assembled in the
historic ‘‘Saint Pauls" church, corner
Ninth and Grace streets here on
Tuesday night of th's week.
The speaker was introduced by Dr.
John Garland Pollard. Governor of
Virginia, who stated that Dr. Moton,
by his sane leadership had endeared
himself to, and won the confident of
all races. Governor Pollard also
pledged his support to all movements
which will help the Negroes and im
prove relations beeween the two rac^s.
We relate briefly some of the high
lights of the address de ivered by Dr.
Moton in the following paragraphs:
"I take off my hat to the white man
for the simple reason that he re
spects the women of his race; the
Negro as a whole does n:t have the
proper respect for his race.” ‘‘Some
time ago there was much talk about
the Negro going back to Africa, but
in my travels so far I have not found
any Negroes who want to go to Afri
ca. The white people do not want the
Negroes to go ba k to Africa, es
necially those in the southern raH; of
the United States.” ‘‘It is claimed
that the Negro owns Africa, but a
v>out all that they can lap claim to, in
Africa is Liberia, and there is a
mortgage on that.” ‘‘The Negroes in
the United States are further ad
vanced than they are anvwhere else
in the world, we have gained certain
advantages by our contact with the
Anglo Saxon race in this country. All
races who amount to anything much
have naa to go tnrougn struggles to
get there; we should therefore, not be
discouraged, for we have progressed,
financially, spiritually, socially,
morally and intellectually, for all thrs
we should be very thankful.” Dr.
Moton stated that there were many
things however, that rankled on the
Negro’s mind, he cited numerous in
stances in which the Negro is segre
gated and jim-crowed, citing part cu
larly the conditions that obtain oil
railroad and steamship lines in the
country, laying particular stress upon
the fact that news dealers, conduct
ors and any others who desired to do
so stationed themselves in the jim
crow cars operated by the railroads,
forcing the occupants to ride in the
sun and in other parts cf the cars not
desired by those who frequently use
the jim-crow car, in many instances
as a smoker. He stated that the hea th
comfort and safety of the Negro was
not in the minds of these people.
Broad Street station uas used by him
as a case in point, he stating that
there are two seperate entrances
there, where only one is necessary,
the Negro being relegated around to
the side of the building where there
was a small part of the building de
signated for his use, he paps the same
price for his travel that the white
man pays yet he is given inferior ac
comodations. If he is to be given in
ferior accomodations of travel he
should not be charged more than half
fare. The law requires that the Negro
shall receive seperate, but equal ac
comodations. I have traveled on many
roads and on none of them have I
ever seen the Negro accorded equal
accomodations, not one.”
Dr. Moton in speaking of the pres
ent condition of affairs said “the
white man could use moral suasion
rather than legal force in giving jus
tice to the Negro”.
Regarding the hewers of wood and
the drawers of water as mentioned
in the scriptures Dr. Moton said, “I
would not be a Christian If I thought
that God had put a curse on me and
that curse was the color of my t kin.
The white mans success has net been
due to the color of his skin; we must
make up our minds that we are not
cursed, we do not need to a^olog'^e,
for we are fundamentally what God
willed that we should be, we have no
apology to make for our color, the
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