pirst in Local Circulation. Vol. 3, No. 46 WILL ESTABLISH LEGISLATIVE BUREAU HERE SOON RACE CONGRESS TO FINANCE BUREAU Staff-will keep Race inform* ed on’important politi cal topics The National Race Congress in its; iinth sosscn at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, this city this week, voted to establish an information and service ebarge of it. This bureau is to wnteh the legislative machinery and look af ter the race's interests. It also agreed to organize a women's auxiliary. Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham is to take an active part in organizing this branch. The Congress met with a definite program and altho the delegations have been small, much work has been accomplished. In establishing the bu reau referred to ,it will render the raee tangible service. The Congress also determined that it will push the enforcement of all the amendments to the constitution; it will urge the elimination of the photo graph with the application for a civil service position: and jt will ask the president to issue an executive ordei* doing away with segregation in the department^ of the government in Washington. Many notable men have addressed the Congress at this session. Dr. Em mett J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard University, delivered the wel «>me address on behalf of the Com aiisMuffPisof the District. Dr. S C. Somerville, of Portsmouth, who has been called to Boston, Mass., delivered a powerful discourse on “Occupy Until 1 Come." - Mr. Walter J. Millard, field secre tary of the legmie on proportional rep resentation, enlightened the Congress on the possibilities of this subject. Con gressman Emanuel Cellar of New York told of his bill Itefore Congress to create an interracial commission to look after the welfare of the Negro in this country. Dr. J.'C. Austin of Pittsburgh, made a strong address supporting the Bureau. Music for the sessoins have l«“en furpished by the choir of Mt. Carme! Church aud the Amphion Glee Club. The Women's session on Thursday af ternoon was well attended and the ad dresses (jointed and pertinent to the general question of law enforcement. Friday was given over to winding up of the business sessions and the elec tion of officers. Suburban Gardens Opens May 15 This, the fourth season of the Sub urban Gardens, .(Washington’s favor ite colored amusement park jshould be its best for the reason that lavish pieparations have been made to pre sent the latest amusement devices and attractions. Among the new things expected to be rapdy for the opening day. May 15, are: The Famous Caterpillar Ride which ingratiated itself with the pub lic over night; A Dogern- Junior which is a most fascinating, and cap tivating joy maker; and a large thea tre where clean, wholesome and en joyable musical acts will be pre sented. The various rides used in the form er years, and the midway of novel ties are being put into condition and many improvements are being incor porated into all parts of the park that more for the money than ever be fore might be given to the patrons. For these reasons the officials of the park when interviewd were very optimistic and predicted that a very big season would be enjoyed by the patrons, concessionaires, and the cwners, and operators. « The old-fashioned Mother who used to worry about the. children on cold winter nights now sends her husband cut to the garage with an extra blan ket for the car. ®ie Wfilnnfifoii ©T ibiinc Published Weekly DR. CROSSLAND ARRESTED FOR PASSING WORTHLESS CHECKS AT MISSOURI CONVENTION St. Joseph, Mo., Special—Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, ex-special Technical Assistant in the Veterans Bureau and for a while, a physician at the Veter ans Hospital at Tuskegee, is again in trouble. This time he is involved on a charge of passing bad checks. The checks were passed by Dr. Crossland while attending the Repub lican convention. Dr. Crossland was arrested and was arraigned in Justice Hesler’s court and released under bond of SSOO to appear for trial. He is charged •rith giving Charles T. Phelps, negro barber, 216 Francis street, a check for $l2O dravUn last summer on the Metropolitan Trust company, Washington, D. C. At that time Doctor Crossland was em ployed in the veteran’s bureau from which he recently resigned. Accord ing to Crossland the check was given in good faith. At the time he had a joint account with his wife . with whom he was having domestic trou ble and she drew heavily on the ac count without his knowledge he said. Dr. Crossland has received much notoriety because of his matrimoinal affairs. The last Mrs. Crossland now nas a suit pending and names in her bill a prominent society matron Says Howard Faction is Without Standing in Miss. Dr. D. W. Sherrod of Meridian, Miss., Chairman of the Republican State Committee, was in Washington this week in the interest of his dele gation that will go to • Cleveland. While here Dr. Sherrod told a Tri bune reporter of the split in party in Mississippi.’ Dr. Sherrod branded as untrue the story sent out last March by PerryW. Howard, special assistant to the At torney General about the split. Dr. Sherrod brought with him here all the documents necessary to show beyond a reasonable doubt that Perry W. Howard has greatly misrepresented the facts. Accompanying Dr. Sher rod here, was State Secretary, Ed ward F. Brennan (white). Dr. ]». W. SHERROD According to these men, the How ard faction of the party -is without Standing in the state. In fact, ac cording to their claims. Perry W. Howard attended the convention car rying an illegal proxy. Their story of the affair was as 'follows: “During the meeting of the committee held at Jackson, Miss., February sth, the Secretary, Dr. D. ’ W; Sherrod, announced that there were eighteen members present in pei son and three members present by proxy, including the void and ille- gal proxy of Martin De Vaux held by can leaders and then returned home Perry W. Howard; making a total of with the assurance that he would get twenty-one members present. The a square deal at Cleveland. Dr. Sher- Secretary, Dr. D. W. Sherrod, then rod has been a delegate to every Na read the minutes of the last meetingtional Convention for the past 20 'of the Republican State Executiveyeara. j WASHINGTON, D. C. of Chicago, known as the doctor’s “Baby Doll.” While in Savannah, Ga., at the State Normal Industrial School he called his “Baby Doll” in Chicago up over lon gdistance; the bill amounted to nearly $25. Dr. Crossland left the school without paying the bill and the Principal had it to pay. A futile at- i tempt was made to collect this amount from Dr. Crossland. Dr. J. R. As Crosland while work ing in the Veterans Bureau in Wash ington, wrote Director Hines to the! effect that if he was given a position at the Veterans Hospital, Tuskegee, Ala., he would go there with some good white man and quiet the Ne groes who were then demanding a । complete colored. staff. In the bar gaining that ensued. Dr. Crossland closed his office in the Veteran’s Bu reau, and thereby put nearly a dozen colored workers out of jobs. Dr. Crossland stayed at Tuskegee a little over three months before he was kicked out. He then returned to Missouri his home state. Since go ing back to Missouri he had been ac tively engaged in trying to put over his candidacy for a place on the state delegation to the Republican Nation- 1 al Convention which will be held in Cleveland. Committee, held in Jackson, Vriday, were read and adopted. At this juncture M. H. Daily, act-j ing chairman, announced that he de sired to make a statement to the com- j mittee and thereupon introduced a ; certain agreement purporting to have, been signed by the Mulvihill and Li gon factions, reorganizing the com- i mittee. The agreement was read by Mr. Daily after which he stated that he desired the committee to vote up on the adoption or rejection of the said agreement. The question was put and resulted in the rejection of the agreement by a vote of twelve ! to eight. Chairman Daily, after announcing the vote, then asked alb members of the committee who had favored the adoption of the agreement to move over to his right side. When six of the members had walked to his right side including Perry Howard, there after he declined to recognize any dther members of the committee, save those constituting the minority" of six; in this this number was included the illegal proxy of Martin De Daux held by Perry W. Howard. The other faction withdrew, carry ing their majority to another room for the completion of their meeting. Dr. Sherrod declared that there is nothing strange or new about this matter. Ate said that Perry Howard in this matter is simply running true to form. It seems that Mr. Howard has long since decreed that when it comes to Mississippi politics in so far as the republican side of the matter goes he simply must have his way or have a contest. It is difficult to see what Mr. Howard can hope to gain from breaking with the majority of the leaders in his state and setting up a rump convention of his own as it seems clear was done in this case. For many years Dr. D. W. Sherrod served as Secretary of the State Re publican Executive Committee of Mississippi and now he is chairman of the committee. Unlike many of the cheap hat in the hand politicians he is a man of character, intelligence, integrity, and money. Dr. Sherrod was promoted to the chairmanship when the factions split. He represents the progressive group of Negroes in the state. While here, he laid his case before the Republi- • SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1924 DENIES WHITE SUPERIORITY IS A FACT - Noted Anthropologist points to African Civilization in argument Philadelphia—The members of the American Philosophical Society spent the afternoon today listening to a hot debate by c.thropologists on the ques tion “Are the various races of man po tentially equal?" The theory that the so-called Nordics have a siqaTiority mining the white races was dismissed lightly, and the debate narrowed down to the issue whether there exists any inherent superiority of the white ra<-es over the black. The majority of the speakers contended that there was no real evidence of white superiority. When the snbjert was thrown oja-n to general discussion, one speaker nt the school of Ixittrop Stoddard and Madison Grant, asked if then* was not evidence on every side of the suprem acy of the whites, in the great civili zations built np by the white races as against the barrenness of nehieveinents 'by the Africans.' Reminded of Mother of Civilization “Rut a few thousand years ago," replied Dr. Franz Boas. America’s leading mithro]>ologlst.cthc Egyptians might have said the same thing of the whites, lasiking nt tlx- backwardness of the white races, they might have snid, "They an* shift h*s. suisTstltious, mentally inferior and nothing can ever I be made of them." n very old one. TlmPcfvllizntHHl 'wHM 0 evry new thing, and that it was n mis take to judge the potentialities of dif ferent races by their standing at the present time. The shattered cause of white super iority was urgued by 11. U. Hall, ora tor of general ethnology of the muse mu of the University of Pennsylvania who declared that: (Continued on page 6) Life Insurance: The Corporation (Written for the Federal Life Insur ami* Company By Simeon Cunningham) Man's activity may be divided in tlic main into two classes out of which grow the nature or character of eor |H>ration he creates. On the one hand we have those activithw to which they nre driven by necessity, by hunger, by hick of the comforts of life, or by the desire of aceninublt ion out of which group we see formulated manufactur ing and public auatie ■ oorporntiom* :• on the other baa* •Mtmt those activi ties which have their motives in the higher impulses in nffis-tion and in the sentiments of "duty, justice ami charity and out of the group actuated by the higher ideals there spring schools, libraries.,'churches, asylums and life insurance companies. The corporations of the later group except in their general bearing on the welfare of the State, arc more like private business in their functioning. They, particularly Life Insurance, take cori>oraie form in order to secure strength, effective management ami perisduity. I.ife Insurance Corimrations differ greatly* from the corporations of the tirst group, yet. despite Kite seeming discrepancy in the scope of its charter rights, they form one of the most jmi tent groups in high finance. -It secures by its charter no control over private property and no privileges which are not free to all Life Companies. It claims no right on eminent domain, occupies no public thoroughfare: strings no wires overhead or under ground: digs up no streets; ixdlutes no atmosphere: new companies are readily created ami no monopoly is possible. I.ife Insurance is not some thing that ihmiiJc can't live without nor something that the whole commu nity comes to d«is*nd on. It is rather something that no one is vitally in terestcsl in. or doja-mlcnt tiponu. ex cept those who voluntarily engage in it. either as insurers or insured. DR. CANNON HEADS N.J. DELE GATESAT-LAROE TO G. 0. P. NATIONAL CONVENTION Newark. N. J., May I—Runningl—Running as a candidate for delegate-at-large on the Collidge ticket, Dr. George E. Can non of this city led his party's ticket in the recent elections. Dr. Cannon top]M*d the seven delegates with a rec ord vote of 102.365. His lead over his nearest man was SSB. This is the third time in the history of New Jersey that a Negro has been elected as a delegate-at-large to a na tional convention. Dr. W. G. Alexander, of Orange ran 'as alternate to Dr. Cannon. C. M. E. Conference Closes; Will Meet Here in 1925 The Washington-Philadelphia Cou ftwiHv of the t'.M.E. Church closed Its 52nd session last Sunday evening in Baltimore. Md. The conference was held in Ilie Union Wesley Church. Mount and Baker Streets. The pre siding Bishop, Randall A. Carter, D.D., was more than pleased with the work done in the conference during the lust year. Several new churches have been udded and the number of members gnitly increased. Bishop Charles 11. Phillips. D.D.. of Cleveland, Ohio, at one time pastor of the Israel Metro politan C.M.E. Church in this city was WVg-wlat^Jw.itb. Bisbnu Carter hl.hold The financial reports for the year were (lie best ever made ill tills con ference, mid quite n number of organi zations were helped. ATauit S3OO was donated to the LM.t'A. work of which Dr. C. H. Uobins is International Sf its appeal. linked with the soundness of its working basis and the effective system of management. Life Insurance stands first in the list of safe corporate forms. In the Federal Life Insurance Com, pnny. incorjsihitcxl under the laws M the Initial States in the District <4 Columbia, you will find exemplified all the corporate limitations that go to make up an efficient body plus aIL the attributes that go to make a life in surama' catmpany. The vindication of the methods is to lie found in its growing list of satisfied jxdicyholdcm. If y^n have not already done so. lw come- a link in the chain of "the caunpniiy of service and satisfaction Office: 920 U St., N.W. The relative position of the big seven that the state will send to Cleve land as shown by the final count fol lows : Cannon 102,365 Pomeroy 101,479 Colby 101.364 Frelinghuysen 100,735 Edge -100.226 Lippincott ,— 99,743 Stokes 90.5;w Dr. Cannon so far, is the only Negro selected as a delegate-at-large from u northern state. him from attending this session. A substantial donation was also made to the American Bible Siw-hiy in answer to an apisal f