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XXVI No. 12
W* next rested our weary feet in
j^orleld for only a few hours. Here
w« feund a small number of colored
p*yls. Yet they are a nice class of cit
iMtt, most of them owning their homes.
Hi. Coalson is still working at the
Msleable Iron factory. He owns a nice
fe*a«. Mrs. Dadney is working at the
She owns a nice home. Rev. and
MM. B. F. Hubbard lives here. The rev
•r«d is pastor of the A. M. £. Church
ala* is the minister for the Methodist
Ckirch at Mt. Pleasant. He is a young
mil* *f stearling quality and is doing
goti constructive work here. Mr. Sam
uel Syeks is still here. F. A. Anthony
i» working in the factory. Mr. Dan F.
Dtiwiler, the faithful and useful hotel
»ia» is still at the Liggett hotel. Mr.
K. Greenup is still here doing well. Ot
tunrwa, county seat of Wapelo county
-frith a population of 20,000 people of
whisk 1,000 are colored people. Most
ef them doing well. We believe that a
first «lass restaurant and a good physi
ti*, also an undertaker might all do
/*•)). They have two church organiza
tions, the A. M. E. pastored by Rev.
Waters and the Second Baptist who re
eently had the misfortune of having
their church burned down as yet they
lav# not rebuilt, but are considering
plaas on getting them a home. Mr. and
MM. Frank Alexander are still here.
J. B. Bradshaw is working at the same
plat*. Mr. and Mrs. H. Downey are
liviag in their pleasant home at 236
Baskaw street. Mrs. Downey was en
thused over her tag day report in re
gard to the home for the student girls
at lewa City. Mr. S. A. Herald is still
working for the Ottumwa Courier. Rev.
O. W. Rhinehart and wife is living here.
Hs is a retired minister. He is one
•I ike pioneer ministers in the middle
[fWAst. The Owen's children have re
builta very beautiful and modern home
ea the sight where the old on© stood
fct wap burned last year. Miss Bes
a tlacher in Kansas City is spend
ing the summer here. Mrs. Luella Spicer'
Ite recently married a man named
PRINCIPAL JONES TO OMAUA.
1* interview tell" of his all the year
Pitf, Iiaurence C. Jones of the Piney
W»*4s school, who has been making his
ktoiquarters in Des Moines for the p&3t
tw» months, left last Tuesday for Oma
ha, where he will have headquarters
fn fe few weeks while calling upon liis
Pia«y Woods friends in western Iowa.
Iii explanation relative to the open
i«g
«f
his institution Principal Jones
•aii:
"Our plant does not need to have a
formal opening inasmuch as it is open
ils entire' year. It would be unbusi
mMslike and very unsatisfactory to
The South Has
No Charms
Encouraged by the recent troubles in
wthern communities numerous south
•n delegations from various, communi
Hm, have recently^ visited Chicago, and
•«k«r eities, with the taost globing in
citements to colored people^ urging
«m to "come back to the land where
Ikvy are best loved and most under-
•tMd.''
Im a great massmeeting
Are that
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THE EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS
(By John L. Thompson.)
held
Sgtth regiment armory on the
l«tion of the'audience of
lw heard the expressions "none,
«e." In very
sal
little
iu
the
mght
•I Labor day, a question waa asked by
of the speakers: "How many
JOT wish to return south?" In
eveT^
or no
ha been received, in
n0
truth, this is the
univer­
sentiment. Reports from emp oy
•mt bureaus, the Urban league, an
lien members of commissions e
(fttions themselves, from
the
south, de-
encouragement
the
matter re
Inning south. One man expressed the
Mitiment of thousands when he said.
"I would rather live in Chicago if they
hi
a
riot here every week." Another
%pieal individual made a very amus
•Mnment. This happened in the assem
bly room of the Chicago XJrban League,
ttd is vouched for. The big
••utherner was present, before an
Mmbly
of
more than one hundred Neg?o
v*rkmen. He described enthusiasticao.
ly
that
on his plantation there are many
l«gs that needed sawing up. B®
uipoeraieiy, jl ibh
ysu send the logs up to Chicago,
we'tt-saw ,'ein here."
.aw
r0®
transportation would be furnishe
*ur dollars per day paid to the labo
«b. How many of you wish to g°
lie asked. There was painful
Raally, one brother spoke up and saxa,
deliberately, "I tell you what you ao,
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v,
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Johnson. They are doing well. W H.
Thompson and U. M. Thompson arc
both here! The latter's wife is very
sick at her home on Ferry street. Mr.
Zack Taylor, one of the landmarks and
early pioneers here is still driving the
express wagon. Mr. Taylor is a well
to do highly respected by both races.
He is quite old yet active in both
church and secret society. Charles Wil
son is still here doing well. H. E. Will
iams is still a clerk at the large automo
bile service station. J. Weeks is still
here doing well. One of his sons will
enter the state university this fall. His
niece from New York is visiting here.
Mr. and Mrs. Rose is doing well. Mr.
and Mrs. Cascn are doing well. Mr. and
Mrs. William Bailey are here doing nice
ly. Mr. E. Milligan is still here as is
also George W. Bailey. Miss Ida Davis
is our new agent. She is a sister to our
former agent, Miss Marguerite. Rev M.
Carrington has moved here from Cen
terville and has taken chrage of the
Baptist Church. Mr. C. T. Gooch is one
of the reliable citizens here. He is do
ing well. One of his sons is a student
at Wesley college at Mt. Plasant. J. T.
Henderson has opened
Up
Sis
if the south must really have additional
Negro help, and insists on continuing
the political and civie injustices of the
present, their logs will have to be sent
north if the work is to be done.—Na
tional Negro Associated Press.
IXNG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.
(Special to Bystander.)
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Berry of Long Is
land City, N. Y., had the pleasure of
entertaining the following Des Moines
citizens on the evening of Aug. 22. Dr.
J. AJvin Jefferson, Miss Tabetha Mash,
Miss Adah Hyde, Miss Marie I. Bell.
Negro Legion In
Pittsburg, Pa.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 12. The
Crispus Attucks Post No. 30 of the
'American Legion was organized last
night when some 200 Negroes ex-sol
diers' and Sailors' Club. This is the
the first post organized exclusively for
the Negro service men and it is the in
tention of the officers to make this the
only post £f its kind in Allegheny coun
ty«
The meeting was called to order by
E. R. McKinney, who was elected tem
porary chairman. The election of per
manent officers followed and resulted in
the unanimous selection of the follow
ing:
Homer S. Brown, commander
Thomas E. Barton, viee commander D.
C. Jefferson, adjutant E. R. McKinney,
treasurer R. F. Jones, historian, and
the Rev. Shelton H. Bishop, Chaplain.
The newly elected chaplain proferred
"eUvT«« of the parish activity ho»«
of the Church of the Holy Cross for a
meeting plaee for the new organization.
—Associated Negro Press.
NBOEO HOTEL FOB LOUISVILLE
(By Associated Negro Press.)
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and confectionary parlor at 602 Grant.
Wo next stopped in Albia. Here we
found the people quite well and doing
well. There is one church the A. M. E,
pastored by Rev. J. W. Dowden, who is
doing well. Mr. G. W. Hollingsworth
still Jives on his truck farm just out of
the city limits. R. A. Grayson is now
living in his new home that he is re
modeling at 221 avenue west. B.
Thomas is still working at the garage.
A. L. Allen is still working for the
large store. C. L». Washington is still
here. He is working at the same plac«.
L. E. Franklin is doing well as usual.
He is one of the pioneers here as* also
is Mrs. Mary F. Ward. Henry Jones is
another pioneer citizens here. Walter
A. Benning
.doing well. William
Richards is here doing nicely. They,
own' a 'nice place. J.' W. Allen is stlu
living here doing well. Albia needs a
good barber shop and a restaurant.
close down a seventy-five thousand dol
lar plant for three or four months in
the year. The buildings would stand
very well but we have thousands of dol
lars worth of machinery that it would
not be wise to leave idle for instance
our electric light plant, the printing
office, the grist mill and saw mill.
But greater than this is the desire of
many boys and girls to continue their
development.
(Principal Jones stated that about
sixty students and five teachers are on
the campus all summer, but a general
opening will occur the first of Novem
ber, when the school colony will reach
a mark of one hundred and fifty board
ing students and eighteen teacehrs.''
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DES MOINES WOMEN GO OVER TOP IN
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"They Shall Not Pass"
Since the Washington and Ohicago
riots, the daily newspapers of the south,
have been having a glorious time josh
ing the north. They have been saying,
in effect "While wo lynch Negroes in
the south, we never bother other than
tho one lynched, all others are safe."
Now comes Knoxville, Tenn., knocking
the sox out of that flimsy argument. In
a riot in that southern city, Negroes
were called upon to defend themselves
and their homes, as they were called
upon in Washington and Chicago. That
they manifested a remarkable spirit of
self-defense, all reports concur. The
time has come when the American
Nogio has taken up the famous expres
sion of Marshal Joffre, and made it
their own: "They Shall Not Pass."
The American "Negro has been of the
most patient and long suffering group
of people ever known to history. He is
in perfect love with all that is just
and righteous. "(Perfect love casts out
all fear," and therefore, in defense of
liis manhood rights, death, today, lias
real charms. This being the case, and
since it has been a long time custom of
the rough element of the- American
whites to hold the race in subjection by
fear, it seems most prudent, wise and
time, to "come let us reason together."
In many communities, north and south,
this is being done with fine effect.
It. may as well be understood^* and
nothing else should be expected wheth
er this is regarded as a "white man's
country"—even thought it was stolen
from the red man, who has always been
friendly to the black man— or not, the
American Negro today has a new point
of view, which all hades cannot wipe
out. Listening to the siren of right
eousness, justice, liberty, freedom and
democracy-, he has accepted the tenor
of their way, and with keen eyes, set
face, steady tread, open mind and
strong arm, asks nothing more, and cer
tainly will take nothing less. Neither
the aggressor nor the oppressed, the
American Negro places his cause before
the right thinking people of the nation,
who, in every crisis, have been the vic
tors.—Negro Associated Press.
Nominated For
Candidate for Assembly
New York, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Repub
licans in the nineteenth assembly dis
trict, which includes a large part of the
Harlem Negro secton, have nominated
Miss Marguerite L. Smith, a teacher in
the Horace Mann School as candidate
for the assembly.
The. Negroes haVe announced that
they will place in the field an opposition
independent republican candidate the
Rev. R. M. Bolden of our race.—Asso
ciated Negro-iPr^d
soon be opened at Sixth and Liberty
streets, under direction of Dr. J. A. C.
Lattimore, colored, 1502 West Wal
nut street.
Dr. Lattimore is negotiating for the
cold Bohemia hotel property of the Cen
tral Consumers' Company.
CONGRESS FINALLY WAKES UP.
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Washington, D. C., Sept. 12.—In the
house of representatives July 25, 1919
Mr. Emerson introduced the following
joint resolution, which was referred to
the committee on appropriations and
ordered to be printed:
To investigate the race riots in
Washington and elsewhere.
Resolved, by the senate and house
of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem
bled, that a committee composed of
five members of the senate, to be ap
pointed by the president of the senate
and five members of the house, to be
appointed by the speaker of the house
for the purpose of the United States
and lynchings that of investigating the
race riots all over have occurred in the
United States, and ascertain if possible
the causes of the same and what rem
edy should be employed to prevent the
recurrence of the same.
Said committee shall have power to
attendance of the same, and to hold
subpoena witnesses and compel the
hearings in any part of the United
States. The sum of $50,000 is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the
United States treasury not otherwise
appropriated to defray the expense of
such investigation.
Best Treatment for a Born.
If for no other reason, Chamberlain's
The first Salve should be kept in every house-
-ill told o» wcoMt of it. gr«» Trio. to
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In one place which was working two
shifts, white women had the day shift
and colored women the night sliift. Dur
ing a given length of time the output of
two shift? was compared and the col
ored women averaged 1,500 more shells
than the white.
A group of colored women in one city
were found dipping clay in glaze and
stacking, chipping impurities from clay,
shoveling and wheeling rock, trucking
brick, and loading scrap iron. In some
of thego cases the women were being
paid less than men whose places they
were go ^fficiently filling. The wages
paid to Win were three dollars a day
for shoveling in a clay bank, but the
women who released them for the army
were given a dollar or half dollar less.
To prevent conditions like these and
the lowering of labor values means that
colored women must bo organized, just
as our white women need organization.
Women have come into industry to
stay, and "women" means colored as
well as white. Their industrial prob
lems are the same—conditions of work,
pay, hours, housing, and recreation.
The adjustment of labor includes the
colored women. To meet her needs the
Young Women's Christian Association
has already established eight industrial
cental.—Southern Workman
the treatment of burns. It allays the
pain almost instantly, and unless the
injury is a severe one, heals the parts
without leaving a scar. This salve is
also unequaled for chapped hands, sore
nipples and diseases of the skin. Price
25 cents.
Adv.
NEGRO PRESIDENT IK AMERICA
New York, N. V.—C. I. B. King,
president-elect of Liberia, arrived here
yesterday on the steamship Carmania,
on his first visit to the United States.
After a short stay in New York lie will
go to Washington to pay his respects
to President Wilson. He was met down
the bay by H. F. Worley, United States
government receiver of customs and
fiscal agent of Liberia, who represented
the state department in receiving the
president-elect.
Mr. King said that a credit of $5,
000,000 granted this country by the
United States, which is the first loan
of consequence ever negotiated by
Liberia, would be used for public im
provements which would tend to make
the -jountry still more productive antK
create a larger import and export trade.
While in this country, Mr. King will
address the World Christian Citizenship
Conference in Pittsburgh in November.
This engagement was made while he
was attending the peace conference as
a delegate from Liberia. President Wil
son and Queen Marie of Rumania also
will be speakers.
CEDAR RAPIDS NEWS.
Rev. Woodard, pastor of Mt. Zion
Baptist Church died Friday morning in
St. Luke's hospital. Funeral services
were held Sunday afternoon from Mt.
Zion Church. The ceremony was con
ducted by Rev. Bates of Des Moines.
E. C. Thomas passed away at his resi
dence, 918 South Eighth street Satur
day. Funeral held at Bethel A. M. E.
Church Monday afternoon. The serv
ices were conducted by Rev. J. (P. Sims.
Mrs. J. E. Milligan entertained at
dinner Sunday in honor of Oliver Ampy.
Covers were laid for Misses Wilmoth
La veil, Gertrude Perkins and Lucile
Hawkins and Messrs. John Harrison.
Attorney George H. Woodson is in the
city on business.
Mrs. Charles Perkins of Chicago re
turned home Wednesady.
Miss Marie Williams left Saturday
afternoon for Florida to attend school.
Mr. Thomas Jackson remains vt.
ill.
Making Play *f Work.
Mnirfng play of work la often
tdea when getting children
to help
Tbua. when seeking the aid of
youngster to pick up the pins from
the Boor, let him or her use a hors**
1 *hoe niKguet for the purpose. Yov
•au fret such for teu oent»
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DES MOINES, IOWA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1919,. Price Five Cents
Colored Women
In Industry
The work of colored women during
the moboli&atioa of women power to fill
men's places proved that the colored
woman has her place in industry and is
capable of maintaining high principles
of efficiency. In many cases the un
skilled labor fell to her lot and we
found her doing very heavy work in
brickyards, sawmills* and glass fac
tories. The railroads employed her in
great numbers to do yard-work and
track* cleaning. But then she also found
that she was needed in labor which re
quired more skill, in knitting and cloth
ing mills, in underwear, button, embroi
dery, and feather factories.
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That the Dos Moines women were
well organized and ready for this drive
which was carried on tho past week was
evidenced last Sunday afternoon when
the reports wero made at tho mass
meeting at St. (Paul's A. M. E. Church.
Mrs. Lillian Smith, president of the
H. B. 8. Society called the moeting to
order. Mrs. G. G. Nichols led the com
munity singing for fifteen minues and
after a number of selections from tho
Girl Reserves, the chairman of Des
Moines drive, Mrs. 8. Joe Brown, was
presented.
Miss Mamie Diggs president of the
colored University Girls Club was then
introduced and in a very fitting man
ner told of the need of a home for girls
at tho university and on behalf of the
girls expressed deepest appreciation for
what the women of Des Moines and all
jver the state had done for theifi.
Attorney 8. Joe Brown, who had re
cently returned from Iowa City, whore
ho had been called by Mrs. Martha F.
White, president of the Iowa Federa
tion of Colored Women's Clubs and
Mrs. Helen Downey, state chairman
of the home committee was present and
gave a detailed report of the purchase
of the home which was bought last
week at a cost of $5,300.00. The fol
lowing contributors reported.
$1.00—Mrs. Gus Watkins, Mrs. Geo.
Mason, Mrs. Oscar Glass, Mrs. J. W.
Fields, Mrs. Ralph Burnaugli, Mrs. Bess
Hughes, Mrs. Harry Burman, Mr. Clar
ence McClain. Cash 2.00, Mrs. J. B.
Morris. $4.00 a friend. $4.50 a friend
$5.00, W. H. MeCree, Editor J. L.
Thompson, Mrs. J. H. McClain. $10.85,
Mrs. Mary Mease Scott. $7.00 pledge.
$15.00, Mary Church Terrell Club, Dr.
R. A. Dobson. $25.00, Princess Zorah
chapter No. 10, O. E. S., Representative
James B. Weaver, Mr. and Mr.s E. T.
Blagburn raised by Mrs. Jeeeye E. Mc
Clain, $157.35 Knights of Pythian
lodge No. 18, $28.00 Oziel Chapter, No.
9, O. E. S., $25.00 Pliillys Wlieatley
Club, $25.00 G. U. O. of Odd Fellows
and Household of Ruth, $22.00 Mary B.
Talbert Club, $20.00 U. B. F., $10.75
Rebecca Court of Calanthy No. 3, $10
THE GIRL SCOUTS
FAVORS NO COLOR
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 12.—The Girl
Scouts being a thoroughly democratic
and American organization, it favors
neither color nor creed. Owing to this
advantage the, number of Negro Girl
Scouts is on the increase, showing a
splendid roll to date. Nearly 150 have
enrolled under leadership especially
chosen. The roster shows that the Euc
lid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
has twenty scouts, under Jessie Blair,
captain.
As a mark of force of the new move
ment in the education of girls, a
glance at the July report from National
Girl Scout headquarters, just received
here, shows that during last month 258
girls, new scouts, have been added to
the national roll, and this does not in
clude the unregistered scout girls.
The Best Advertisement.
The best advertisement any merchant
can have is a satisfied customer. No
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HOME AT IOWA CITY IS
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LINCOLN INSTITUTE
Jefferson City, Mo.
Offers for the year 1919-20, courses'leading to High
School, Normal and College diplomas. Special courses in
Book-keeping, Stenography, Nurse Training, Agricultural
and Mechanical Trades.
For further informations address
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Advertising medl*
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people
In the west
DRIVE'
Doric lodge No. 30, A. F. & A. M., $10
Mrs. Lillian Smith, $8.00 Mrs. J. W.
Baldwin, $5.00 Mrs. Whitmore, $5.00
De« Moines branch N. A. A. C. P., $5
Mrs. Qeorgo C. Young, $5.00 raised by
Mrs. George C. Young, $178.75.
The following contributed one dol
lar each: Mrs. Anna Williams, Boone
J. W. Heath, and Hayes Bell, William
Berry, J. B. Slaughter.
Tho following contributed two dol
lars: Mr. and Mrs. J. II. MsOregor,
Blancliard, Iowa.
The following contributed five dol
lars: Mr. and rMs. J. H. McGregor,
a friend, Des Moines Mutual Aid Club,
Ames, Iowa, and Dr. Rufus P. Beshears,
St. Joseph, Mo. Bert A. Harris, Y. L.
Jones, iPrice Alexander, T. J. Franklin,
Anita, la. Miss Mildred I. Griffin, O. T.
Crutcher, John Taylor, Mrs. R. P. Par
riott, and Ernest C. Robinson.
The following contributed ten dollars
each: Attorney 8. Joe Brown, Prof.
L. C. Jones, Des Moines J. Wesley
Thompson, Iowa City J. -K.
M. Hubbell, L. O. Oransky, Valley Na
tional Bank, and Ben Weinburg.
The following contributed fifteen dol
lars each: G. S. Nolland, Wilkins Bros.
Co.! A. A. Alexander and Syndicate
Club.
The following contributed twenty
five dollars each: Ex-Governor Frank
D. Jackson J. Mandelbaum
ts
greater recommendation can he given
anr article than the following by E. B.
Milburn, Prop., Guion Drug Store,
Guion, Ark. "We have sold Chamber
lain 's Cough Remedy for years and
have always found that it give* perfect
satisfaction."
Adv.
GREAT INFLUX TO OMAHA.
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 12.—More than
1500 persons have come to Omaha during
the last week, eccording to labor offi
cials, three hundred have come to the
south side to seek employment in pack
ing house. Most of the laborers are sin
gle-
The influx of Negro labor has been
noticeable for the last three weeks.
South
Bide
Clement Richardson, President.
police have kept on the move
those who showed little inclination to
No disturbances of any kind
have been reported.
An increase of 25 per cent in Negroes
applying for work has been noticed by
Armour & Co.'s employment bureau.—
Associated Negro Press.
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The following contributed fifty dol
lars each: Attorney General H. M.
Havner, Des Moines National Bank
Yonker Bros. Harris-Emery Co., Green
Bay Lumber Co., Central State* Bank
A. Frankel, L. E. Stevens.
E. T. Meredith contributed $100.
Raised by Mrs. S. Joe Brown $815.50.
With a number of small cash sub
scriptions and $4.00 taken in at meet
ing the Des Moines women were able
to report $1,150.60. This together with
$408.76 sent in by State Chairman Mrs.
Downey from over the staite to Mr*. Mc
Clain, state treasurer, makes a total
of $1,559.36 which enabled the commit
tee to make a substantial payment up
on the property of which they are al
ready in possession and which they will
open on Sept. 15.
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