Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1934 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1934

The INDIANAPOLIS RECORDEI Published Weekly at Indianapolis 618-20 Indiana Ave. LI. 7222

GEORGE P. STEWART Founder and Editor—1896-1934

MARCUS C. STEWART Editor

American citizens rally to the defense of their home land, in a

cause as sacred as this?

Could these citizens afford to refuse to fight the common enemy in such a case? We think not.

Even conscientious

CRUSING ‘ROUND’ By LEE J. MARTIN

CO-CALLED NEGRO RADICALS By KELLY MILLER

I '

I Poem of the Week

Hutwcrlptlon Rates: 1 ^i*. $2.00; 6 Months, $1.00; Months, 60c; Single Copy, 5c Entered as Second Class Mdtter at the Indianapolis Post Office July, 1910, under the Act of March 8tn,

1897.

NEGRO SKILLED WORKERS

The $3,000,000 Indianapolis slum clearance project was launched last week in accordance with announced PWA planes. Thus, the New Deal, with its tremendous program designated to furnish gainful employment for jobless workers of this community, is finally getting down to business! beginning to put words into action. Nqw that actual work on this government project is about to be started, we regard it as timely to call the administration’s immediate attention to certain vital facts in interest of Negro skilled labor in this city. in the first place, we want the PWA executives to know, if they are not already cognizant of the circumstance, that of all other citizens in this class of service the colored skilled workers in this community have been, and still are the greatest sufferers as a result of the depression. And, it is a matter of record that, due to reasons not unknown to students of our economic system members of our group as a whole, not only in Indianapolis, but every where else, are not obtaining their just share of relief at the hands of the promised New Deal. Indisputably the hardest hit of all other Americans, thousands of cur people are still groaning under the lash of unprecedented hardships imposed on them by four long years of unemployment. Now Messrs. Indianapolis Housing Program Authorities, this editorial is intended as an insistent, but reasonable appeal to you to do something economically helpful and desirably encouraging for deserving members of the Negro race of this community in connection with your slum clearance project. This newspaper, at the behest of the tax paying public is requesting you to see that as many competent Negro skilled workers possible are employed by your department to build these government owned homes for their hundreds of prospective Negro occupants. It is highly important that a measure of preference be extended by the administration to this class of colored workers in view of the fact that these dwellings are to be constructed at the expense of the federal government in a strictly colored section of the city. Negro skilled workers in Indianapolis are sorely in need of employment. As citizens of this community they are entitled to a measure of

relief.

It devolves upon the PWA to see that this is done.

should find it not contrary to their principles to fight such a fight. And they would be wholly justified in doing so, for in an emergency such as this the nation would expect every citizen to do his full

duty.

THIS WEEK thousands of chil-

objectors (j ren started back to school pre-

THE APPROACHING WINTER

In anticipation of another hard and trying winter, the government is formulating plans to extend necessary relief to needy citizens during the cold months. The unemployment situation, though lessened somewhat, is still very much in evidence with its millions of jobless citizens and prevailing business uncertainty. Hence the preparations for a long winter seige and the announced Federal relief program in the making to cope with potential eventualities peculiar to the season. It is timely then to suggest that in spite of efforts to prevent it, there is bound to be more of suffering and privation among less fortunate members of our group next winter. One needs no stretch of the imagination to visualize the vast task which the administration is about to assume in this particular case. And because of the magnitude of this potential task there will be need for the fullest measure of civic co-operation with the government’s plans to give relief to unemployed citizens during the coming winter season. Every best able citizen of this community, including, of course, members of our own group, should prepare now to do their bit to help supply the wants of needy men, women and children throughout the | cold months. It is Christianlike to be charitable in our manifestations toward others. Let us be charitable to the poor of our community during the win-

ter.

sumely to be taught the essential of a better life, but actually learning not to work. It is not the children’s fault or the teacher’s nor the school authorities, the fault lies in the American spirit behind our educational system which makes every boy or girl believe that the moment they step out of the college door with their sheepskin, they can become a Henry Ford, a Joan Crawford or a Hitler, even our little dark-skins hitch their aims far above anything yet attained by their race, in this aft-er-college dream the child loses all interest outside his school and play, makes no effort for himself other than his studies, waiting for that last day when he can step forth and say or think the world is all his.

all good, while not offsetting the good, the future of the individual property owners in this district, especially those who have had a hard time paying their taxes, If at all and those on relief. The minute they receive payments for their home they are to be taken off the relief roll, If this payment is not sufficient to buy new homes, in a few months they will live it up and be back again on the relief roll, minus their homes. They lose.

THAT WITHOUT this imposed American spirit, we would have been poorer, interlectually, that progress would have been slower. I readily admit, but we have over done the thing, painted the path leading from college too rosy, in making the college diploma one of our TWO American gods. The student led by this American spirit to believe that he can not do anything without a college education, is puzzled and disappointed in finding it, so hard to do anything WITH one. When he is finally able to pull off the rose-colored glasses and see the world as it really is,

TO OFSET this paradox of a man eating up his house and home, a “homestead” project should be carried along with slum clearance, in order that the able-bodied of such property owners could use this money in purchasing new modern homes, which would also reduce the possibilities of such persons flopping back on the relief roll.

THE Senate munition inquiry has brought to light startling facts, one among the many is that our great “warships” are only “salesmanships”.

Union Labor testing it’s strength calls a nation wide strike in the textile industry, but this industry knows, like every other industry knows, that as long as there are hungry and poorly cared for men, they can under the legal protection of rifles and machine guns, operate their plants, they also know that any concessions granted the union-!

, At eight years of age an African-

I one time wrote an essay which was printed in the Boston Trans- i born slave girl on the auction block cript and which gained wide currency on “Negro Radicals and Conser-' j n Boston; at twenty acclaimed on vatives”. That was nearly a generation ago. Since then times have two continents as among America’s changed and definitions have changed with them. In those days Dr most talented poets such in brief.

DuBois was considered our arch radical and Booker T. Washington

kPjpm v 0 _IUL

ists can be nullified by the econ-

he seeks ways and means to make jomic pressure of which the industit as beautiful as he thought it j rialists alone have control,

was or becomes hard-boiled against

the whole system.

THUS THE AMERICAN spirit behind our education is wrong, or else we would not poke fun at the products of that system when these products become managers and co-managers of our American affairs.

ABYSMAL IGNORED

The American race prejudice psychology, with its traditional embodiment of sinister preachments, deceptive propaganda and base lies, is a product of organized hypocrisy

and abysmal ignorance.

It is a complex born of false

PREMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy has been and is yet the dictator idol of most of the world’s people, irregardless of race, but he is incurring the disfavor of some 200 millions of its people when he speaks of the possibility of his troops attacking Abyssinia, the oldest monarchy in the world.

While waiting to hear from Maine, I picked up the evening paper the following headline caught my eyes: “COTTON MILLS TO RUN UNDER

ARMS”.

AS MAINE has gone so goes tht nation, but you can’t be so sure of it. Maine may have ibeen voting for it’s popular governor Brann instead of for or against the “new Deal”, however we must admit that had the New Deal made conditions worse or liberty less, the governor of Maine would have received less votes instead receiving more than he did two years ago.

THE BURNING of the Moro Castle steamship with a heavy loss

j . . of life is saddening to the nation, teachings and misleading doctrines w i,j| p | n deep and sincere persistently handed down by piti- gyinptthy for lhe relatives of the fully benighted predecessors to , OMr |t _. horrlb , e marine c . ata . st ro-

“WAR IS HELL”

War, and the act of participating therein were recently condemned in resolutions adopted by the National Council of Methodist Youth (white) in convention at Evanston, 111. Declaring that “As Christians we are unalterably opposed to all types of military training, voluntary or compulsory,” the young church workers also went on record as voicing “sympathy for all conscientious objectors.” Of much significanceis the organization’s expressed intention “Neith er to ’sanction nor to participate in any war for any purpose what-

soever.”

As a war banning gesture, the pronouncement though much too sweeping in character, is not untimely however. Every sane person knows or should know, that war, with its unspeakable horrors, its mission of blood-letting carnage and savage . indiscriminate murder is civilization’s most damnable antagonist. To quote Sherman’s memorable observation, "War Is Hell”. As such it should by all means be outlawed for the social salvation of the human family. But to accomplish this, man must first find a way to rid his little world of the numerous causes of bloody conflicts by means of more widely disseminated education of the right sort! Cultivate more of the quality of true altruism! honestly seek to bring about a better understanding of and respect for the just aspirations of his fellow creatures upon this earth. Ignorant, conceited, insignificant man must purge his system of greed, hatred jealousy, treachery, spite, deception and other equally vicious diseases of the soul before it will be possible for him to enjoy the BLESSINGS OF PEACE and the great benefits it affords. Until such a state of world peace Is assured; until the principles of true democracy are firmly established everywhere for the happi-ness-for all the peoples of the earth, there will always be,—and unfortunately so—rumors of, and causes for calamitous Wars! It is timely always to advocate universal peace; all right thinking citizens should throw the whole weight of their influence on the side of any movement that has for its purpose the condemnation of all wars. But what of the eventuality involving the possilbility of a foreign Invasion of this country? would the iasurers of the Methodist antilight' pronunciamento tolerate any such intrusion upon the sovereigntV of the United States? Would they not, as patriotic

present-day disciples.

The stubbornly controverted race superiority monstrosity is as baselessly falacious a conception as it is wholly a creation of Caucasian arrogance, and intentional

evasion of facts.

It should not be necessary to observe here that the races of men are not different species, they are merely varieties of one race. Every intelligent person should know

that.

Of equal significance is the historically authentic fact that the Grimaldi or Negroid race resembling existing Hottentots in South Africa once covered Europe. These Negroids, according to English scientists, “were obsorbed into later European blood! so that even the Nordic has his share of

Negro blood.

ph»\ out once again to us our we-Lu* ss in dealing with the destructive powers of fire and water. Only a 150 feet from the shore in 35 feet of water yet 177 or more lives lost, making our boasted fire-proof construction and non-sinkable ship a myth.

AFTER YEARS of pleading by the writer and possibly others, the anhorities though the VERA are grading sidewalks on 25th Street from Martindale Avenue pass School number 37, although the present paving material is gravel, it will be quite an improvement over the hazardous walking in the street.

IF 1 WERE entirlej egotistical I could “claim” another victory, that

History is replete with such es-1 of the local housing project, which tablished, but unemphasized parti- now seems definately assured 1 have

been a staunch supporter of the project. The value of it the city and its citizens is unquestionable to those not motivated by selfishness. Since it is no longer necessary for many industries to be situated alongside a rail or wateryways, they inverably pick run down residental sections for their

culars concerning the blood mix

tures in the races of men.

Irreconcilable converts of the foundationless Race Superiority

theory should know that.

No doubt Prof. G. M. Wrong had this in mind when he said, in part as quoted by the Varsity, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

Race is a concept having no found- sights. The rebuilding of this resiation in fact. It is something physi- dental district will act as check on cal linked with a mental accom- industrial enroachment in this and paniment, and it is subjective. surrounding territory, thus assur"All races are descended from ing quietude in the vicinity of the common ancestry. All branches of ! city hospital. It w’ill also check the the human race have a common northward movement of the colormentality, and all are capable of ed population, in so doing, prolong the same mental processes under the life of Indiana Avenue business, suitable conditions. Thus we have A few thoughtless ask in a conclu* physical and mental unity in all j sive manner, “How can people pay

NUTSHELL FACTQ *^About The Race ^ In September, 1920, at the suggestion of Pope Benedict XV, the fathers of the Divine Word at Greenville, Miss., opened the first ecclesiastical seminary in the United States to educate Negro youths for the priesthood.

our counterbalancing conservative. I was considered the dayman balancing midway between the two. Since then the world has moved rapidly towards the left. Robert R. Moton, the legatee of Booker T. Washington, is still our outstanding conservative, in that he holds fast to the things which have been proved to be good by experience and is wary of new and experimental doctrine. DuBois has drifted to the Right so that now the only difference between him and Moton is what Lord Macauley used to call a difference without a distinction. I will adhere to my original position of proving all things and holding fast

to what is good.

Since the World War there has sprung up a group of irresponsible radicals who revel in doctrinaire theories without any political, social or moral responsibility. Dr. Washington and his spiritual descendant, R. R. Moton, felt or feels a keen sense of responsibility for the present weight and pressure of the race problem. Mr. Washington used to say that his soul sustained a pressure of ten thousand pounds to the square inch. Dr. DuBois arrogated to himself the sole proprietorship of the propaganda which combatted all that Booker Washington stood for. If Booker Washington was the thesis, DuBois was the antithesis. He took his task seriously, but our modern day Negro radicals show a lackadaisical indifference to the awful possibilities of the drastic doctrine which they release. They ridicule or condemn the church, the state and the present social order, and leave the poor Negro at the mercy of whatever disaster the outcome may hold for him. When Langston Hughes says, “Good bye Christ” he may as well say farewell to common

sense and human hope.

The radical Negro is atheistical, and believes neither in God nor | man. He is the product (1) of Northern Universities where he takes in undigested things, (2) Negro Colleges, from whose religious and moral moorings set by the missionaries and philanthropists he has abruptly broken, (3) foreign reenforcement; 1 have somewhere defined a Negro radical as an overeducated West Indian withbut a job. There is one peculiarity about the radical West Indian, they are as meek as Moses and as submissive as a lamb while in their native country, but crossing the seas seems to fill them with the spirit of irresponsible revolt. (4) The self-educated variety—George S. Schyler, is the most cynical and caustic of that group. As a whole, they are inebriated with the first effects of a little learning which has always been a dangerous thing. Chafing under severe restraints, they kick against the pricks for the sake of exercising their heels. In order to be a genuine radical, one must be economically self-sustaining or economically indifferent. Socrates, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, John Brown and Mahatma Gandhi spurned the allurements of wealth and power. But our would be Negro radicals never disdain to be thrifty. I have often said that William Monroe Trotter was the only Negro I know who willingly and of set purpose made a material sacrifice for the cause. The others are on the make. No man on a pay roll can be a radical. He must needs subordinate his conscience to his job. A pay roll man must gauge his radicalism by his rations. Society has built up and approved certain values and vested interests. It employs orthodox agents to safeguard and maintain these sanctioned values. Now the radical is at times necessary, else there would be no progress. But he must deny himself and take up his cross and be willing to carry it all

the way to Golgotha.

We hear much about freedom of speech and conscience in our schools and churches but this freedom is of necessity limited to allowable latitude permitted by those 'Who set up and allow existing order. If a preacher wants to overthrow the Church, he should have the % cour-

age to withdraw from the ministry and fight from without. If our Ne- “ " ' gro radicals are not satisfied with Negro schools and colleges, let them IK 1 "?; *5. y Vu. is visiti, ‘E htI sister. Mrs use all legitimate remonstrance for improvement from within, and then enter high school here. Miss' Rosa failing, resign from the faculties and fight like a man from their own Burris has returned home after spend-

ing the summer in Michigan. James

is the story of Phyllis Wheatley, in point of time she is the second American Negro poet*, the first of major importance. A quotation from the poem “Imagination” illustrates very well both her own imaginative gift and her command of language in which to clothe it fittingly: Imagination who can sing thy

force?

Or who can describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find bright

abode,

Th’ empyreal palace of the thundering God, We on thy pinions can surpass the

wind,

And leave the rolling universe be-

hind.

From star to star the mental optics

rove,

Measure the skies and range the realm above; There in one view we grasp the mighty whole, Or with new worlds amaze th’ unbounded soul. Following quotation is probably the best known stanza of the poet whom George Washington com-

mended:

’Twas mercy brought me from pa-

gan land,

Taught my benighted soul to un

derstand

That there’s a God and there’s a saviour too; Once 1 redemption neither sought

or knew.

Some view our sable race with scornful eye— “Their color is a diabolic dye.” Remember, Christians, Negroes black as Cain, May be refined, and join th’ angelic

train.

•Jupiter Hammon preceded Miss

Wheatley a few years.

A VERSE TO A KISS

If I

Were lost

Beyond the veil

That hides us from our fate,

Yet I still would Cherish the dream

Of your lips pressed to mine.

The other dawn we dropped into one of the hotter dives where psuedonobodies gather to drink away the late hours that would be otherwise spent driving down the Main Stem or gallyhootin’ around with other nobodies ... A group I recognized were in a far corner . . . Not one of them meant much in the general scheme of things — discontented with the present and waiting for that big break in the never-coming future that would send them ahead of the other fellow . . . Their gin-lap-ping spree is at its height when we enter and the dames are already getting wall-eyed . . . The empty ice bowl, the pretty bottles and the half empty glasses are on the table . . . Little pools of the giggle water are to be noticed eating their way through the top of the table . . . Somewhere the blatant blare of an orchestra may be heard and to its tom-tom rhythm, couples are swaying. Scarcely do they move from the same spot . . . So thick is the smoke that your eyes smart and you wonder why . . . Or what can they see in this sort of fun . . . And then the manager tells you that if the crowds keep coming he will have to enlarge the place . . . And then you notice for the first time a man, a real young man, seated In another far corner with a moll draped around his neck . . . This is the same fellow who not so many years ago was at the head of one of the most brilliant classes graduated from a well known school . . . And you wonder again why ideals and ambitions sometimes run downward . . . And then you say, O what the h-11, if he likes it that way, let him go to it . . . Because you know the average reader won’t like to read this sort of stuff and that the mail will bring protests that can’t clean up the city . . But you realize that it takes all sorts of stuff (and people) to fill a column.

foothold.

I am neither a radical nor a conservative; I am by nature 'tnd persuasion an ameliorist. 1 (believe in using every feasible means, with dauntless courage, to change the bad into the good, the good into the better, the better into the best, and the best into the be-

atific.

B. Clark was called to South Beno | recently on business. Mr. Clark will enter Wilberforce university this fail Miss Arietta Win row and Otha Brooksspent Friday with Mrs. Nelle Evans Aliss AVini\>(w was enroute to her home in Lafayette after spending the

piano and expressed great talent: He died in 1908.

There are in the United States over 47,000 churches, 5,000,000 communicants, 46,000 Sunday schools and 3,000,000 Sunday school scholars. The value of church property in the hands of Negroes is over $98,500,000.

I would that all educated Negroes were even as I am, in this per- j^Xs. 1 J. T^Due^rsJn^r.f Sun^y suasion. We are facing a dubious future. In this changing world, none , visiting friends in Bedford and Mithave the vision to foresee what place any off-colored group will have jcheil. Mrs. Nelle Evans netertained in the final form of adjustment. The Negro race is about to be battered Cheatham and* 1 daughter 8 ’ Anrdtta* with the shocks of doom. The signs of the times tell us that the day . ciasco, Miss Cheatham will enter is at hand. I once called the "Negro Sanhedrin” for the purpose of high school here. Mr. and Mrs. Mautaking wise heed of impending dangers. The time was not then ripe, visiting^"elativea ^CWc^go* Miss The racq mind was not then ready, but now it requires no soothsayer | Elizabeth Eagieson entertained the to see the portens at hand. We should be able to look to our educated | J . u, ? io r, ? old l sta . r , c ^ 1 !, w . ith a , “ 0, ‘* young men and women to dream dreams and see vtaflons. The old lead- ' ° T C t £ e c m e aduat'es a ^Those in-es' ership may, in many respects, have proved incompetent to grapple with ent were the Misses Frances New-

Barbara Campbell, Beatrice

Charles Miller and Francis Jones, two of the better known locals are holding hands with an altar date in view . . . Samuel Southern, also a well known local lad, has left the Standard Oil to take a job with the Eli Lily Co. . . Robert Patterson has sent Bob gardner to the showers . . . The boy friend from Detroit was a welcome caller at the Hazel Miller residence last week . . . Helen Mitchell’s palling around with the lad from Chicago should not be taken too seriously . . . Uncle Sam still delivers mail from New York . . . And now Jeanette Baird says she is glad Charlie Davis never gets out In her part of town so her name will not get in here ... Oh, No???

The lads and lassies are using music symbols to describe their feelings for each other ... If one of the lads say, “You’re my fast note”, that means she is okay . . . Hot note means the same . . . Flat note means the opposite . . . Sharps and flats mean they just don’t

the issues of their day and generation but, alas, it is too painfully ob- £^ is> Catherine, vtctorta know, while “We’re allegro” means

John H. Alexander, the second Negro to graduate from West Point, who graduated in 1887, died March 26, 1894, while serving as military instructor at Wilberforce university.

vious that the present day Negro radicals are woefully inadequate to and Rosa i yn Eagieson. Emily ana the requirements of this day and hour. j Maxine Hall, ami Anna Hampton

Mrs. Philip Drake, Jr., and children

left recently for St. Louis, where the\

FRANKLIN, INDIANA will make their home with relative* Mr. and Mrs. Babe Akers of Ander- ^, lrH 1 1 an , d * VIr , and ~ r ~ , , j Clark Deal, Owensboro, Ky., were son were the guest Sunday of Mrs. Labor day guest of Mr. and Mrs Akers’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Madi- I Maceo Deal. Mr. and Mrs. James son. Her little daughter Alice who I Shauntee and children and Lorenza has been visiting her grandparents i Gray. Misses Betty Nichols, Gladoca

Do You

Remember?

the alter point has been reached . . . And there are a hundred more of them . . . Just another nite life fad but I wonder how is my half beat or my three quarter time???

SEPTEMBER 15, 1900Colored saloon keepers city have the reputation

Jimmie Collins, Cleve Bottoms and Oliver Hardiman are clicking at the Elite Nite spot . . . Bob

in of

the

The William E. Harmon Awards

for distinguished service among . . Votrrnou nf 16 awards—14 ! ducting the finest bars in the coun- enter school. Mr. and Mrs. George enter Oberlin College and Jame* exclusively for Negroes. The 15th try. Business is reoorted flourish- Boldin and family attended the Clark, Wilberforce.

returned home with them to enter i Hampton and Frances Newman, June

school. Frances Vancleave returned graduates of Bloomington high .school Dawson and Janet Harrison will

home from Indianapolis where he i w ill continue their studies at Indiana spent the summer with his brother, to ! university. Humprey Anderson will

Business is reported flourish- Boldin and family attended th* 9 Home coming in Hanover Sunday.

_ - . . . . . in* Mrs. S. O'Danlels anu daughter Lilof color who works to improve re- A colored organization ot first u an Q f Washington, D. c. arrived in lations between whtte and colored | voters to.be »»»»»“ Sf,,

is open to any person, regardless ing.

people.

Henry A. Boyd, Baptist publisher of Nashville, Tenn., carries an insurance of $115,000.

branches. “There are no physical qualities of race that can be uaed with certainty as an Index of race. “There is no race that holds a monopoly of courage, human or liberty.” All of which goes to show to what miserable extent the timeworn Race Superiority theory Is saturated with worthless egotism.

16 dollars as rent when they can’t pay five," but their logic fails to erase the fact that every home should be modern In this modern America, and that if every home or every structure was modern, rents would /be no more than they are now. Even a family on relief, should have a modern place in

which to live.

In 1652 the first enactment in North America looking toward the abolition of slavery was adopted by the Rhode Island Assembly. No person, black or white, was to serve in bondage more than ten years or after the age of 24 years.

LAW-ENFORCEMENT

“The administration of criminal law In the United Staes is a disgrace to civilization”:—former exPresident Taft. This observation was founded upon irreputable and studied facts; it was as true in Mr. Taft’s days as it is weighted today with sound

logic.

It was, and still Is an effective and wholly justified indictment of our country’s traditionally loose criminal law enforcement system. We are not unmindful of the extent to which the element of politics is asertedly responsible for many a juridical irregularity. Weak officials oftimes lose their heads; tempted to further the ends of public enemies; betray the confidence reposed in them by unsuspecting electorates only to be exposed in the end. For we know that not infrequently such modern political Judas Iscariats are smoked out of their holes and punished accordingly for the good of society. But why should there be any such official discrepancies to hamper inforcement of criminal laws in the United States? Why not put a stop to them. It can be done. There is no reason why this state of affairs with its expensively detrimental effects upon our social structure should be tolerated

However there is some bad in

for a moment by the American people. It is noteworthy, however, that Americans are working slowly, but surely definitely toward that end.

Sojourner Truth, a noted antislavery speaker, was born about 1775, in Africa. She was brought when a child to America and sold as a slave in New York. With the abolishment of slavery in New York in 1827 she became noted as an anti-slavery speaker.

Mrs. Martha Wilson Martin of Indianapolis viaited last Tuesday in Franklin the guest of friends. Mr. and Mrs. R. Wales attended a funeral of a relative in Indianapolis last Thursday. Mrs. Amanda Gains with Mr. George

day night. James Shelton, James H. Lott and Gurley Brewer made speeches. The following were elected officers: Clarence Stewart, president; Joe Timberlake, vice-presi-

dent; Fowler Brown, financial sec- State Fair m ^Indianapolis Jast Thurs

retary; others with offices

Stewart Williams, Allie Morton, Ed- week an enjoyable time was had by

ward Finley.

SEPTEMBER 12, 1914—

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA P. W. Corley, 2133 Spruce street

The Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Sunday school enjoyed an outing last Thurs day at the church. The picnic was to have been held at Demlng Park, but due to the rain, it was held at the church. The pastor's supper will^ he served at Spruce Street church Wed.,

take their hearts to the altar in November . . . The Clarence Jones are going In for an heiring . . . Jean Snell (John’s sister) was at the Elite Club last Satdawnirfg . . . Earnest Walters, the golfing lad, and Martha Jean Wilson (that gal again) are arm in arming it . . . Emmett Scott nd party were hi-de-hoing it at a bright spot the other p. m. . . . Paul Hill, man about town has a job on the new housing project . . . Joanna Thomp-

Peek of N. Vernon attended the ^ ^tewar

a re ; spread* 1 ai the^home^f M^TunfIasi Grace^BerV hal ^returned jfmm^ a^len son’s friends are ^writing hi teUing ah Alice Akers of Anderson was a ^ nd r Ri ^ nS Ann '"mot^e'd^tr Atlanta, for ^eiThelp to mankind—so here fo^the Ydeal ^""club tast ^Wednesday 8 ‘ml ^ F^ay ^ accompany Mrs. they are ... Did Don Jones face

Dr. Theodore Cable returned from Dainty refreshments were served The Winston l o has been car,,ik get red the one very recent eve-

ning out at the Westwood ... Some

turned home with them for a visit, winsome lass stepped up and asked

Mrs. Cora Russell returned Saturday to Chicago after visiting a> week with her mother, Mrs. Mary Price. Mrs. Parks and relatives, who have been

Pleasure Pals were entertained at for Miss A. L. Knight. Airs. Richard

Boston on last Monday and brought the \ ome of Aliss Alma Boris last j Winston and ba by of^IndianiaPol•

What’s the Answer?

BACK TO SCHOOL

The Indianapolis public and parochial schools resumed activities Monday with the usual registration program. It was estimated that 60,000 pupils would enroll Monday, when class work began for all except freshmen in the high schools. Meantime, warnings are being sounded for all motorists to exercize utmost care in school zones. • The warning rs timely in that many thousands of children are attending school for the first time! exposed to the terrible hazards of modern traffic. A circumstance that calls for full co-operation with safety measures inaugurated by school managements by drivers. It is worthy of note- that safety instruction classes and the vigilance of traffic patrols have had the salutory effect of keeping children out of the mad rush of traffic. However, it is to be hoped that motorists will do their part to protect the school children against accidents.

QUESTIONS— 1. How much does the Negro expend annually for clothing 2. What part of the nation’s income does tne iNegro earn? 3. What is the lowest point in the United States? 4. When is a ship in love? (A riddle). 5. Which way does one travel to reach Canada from Detroit? (Not a riddle). 6. Is rattlesnake meat ever canned? ANSWERS— 1. For necessary clothing the Negro expends annually $5,000,000. 2. Three per cent. 3. Death Valley, Calif. It is 276 feet /below sea level. 4. When it hugs the shore. 5. One travels south to reach Canada from Detroit. 6. The canning of rattlesnake meat is an industry in Arcadia, Fla.

with him his bride.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1926Dr. J. Edmund Wood of Danville, Ky., the Forty-sixth annual session of the National Baptist convention opened at Tomlinson hall. WASHINGTON, D. C—Solomon Porter Hood, Minister to Liberia,

has resigned.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1929—

Alonday night. Mrs. Paul Montgomery I was the hostess to the Easy Aces last Friday night at her h'<me on ! Johnson avenue. Aladam Clarence [Wales and Perry Hunter, Clarence and Mary K. Perkins shopped last Saturday in Indianapolis. Air. and (Airs. George Craig and Mrs. Ada ! Glenn of Indianapolis spent last Saturday with Air. Craig’s mother, Airs. Susie Perkins. Airs. Sara Jackson of ; Louisville. Ky.. is visiting in the city the guest of Emmet Good and sisters. I Rev. Price delivered a sermon Sunday

Colored pupils at school 43 is a j night ,h ® . Bapt l. st ei\ * ao i Stella O Daniels and little daughter

thing of the past. School 43 is tor visited her aunt, Mrs. Hattie Quinn in whites only. This fact was re- I Phelhyville Sunday. The Booker T. vealed to a group of colored chil- lYaahington School opened Monday , „ , , „ - , , with a good attendance with Miss dren, former students of the school I(Jthe , Harnett aml Miss Atattie w r ales when they arrived this week for ! a t their posts. Airs. Katherine Armregistration strong and Bro. J. W T . Alontgomery regtstraumi. 'remains ill. Also Kenneth Moore and

WASHINGTON, D. C. The C°*'i j arne8 Batty are ill at their homes

ored voters division of the Repub- j Master Ralph Good, pastor who has llcan National Committee headed ^Va^motheV 1 'n""frher h ”tu’ed by John R. Hawkins has been made , to h ^ s home , n Richmond Saturday,

a permanent part of the national

Don if he would care to do a bit of shuffling . . . Heh . . . Milton

„HI Carter missed connections at Tenth ^.i^^'i^ndrana^rs^fpenr^ abd West streets the other night

Grace Clark was spied at the

Roundtree in Indianapolis, spent few hours here with Airs. Anceline Watson enrouts to their home in Lvles. Harley Hayes of St. Louis, Mo., spent three days with his mothei, Airs. Walter Reed. Rev. Porter of Champaign. 111., was the speaker at the Second Baptist church Sundav morning. Rev. D. B. Dudley and choir of Galilee Baptist church <f Indianapolis will worship at Aft. PH grim Baptist church Sunday. He will preach at the morning and afternoon

services.

T.

G. Waldon, *»443 Third Ave.

Phone H -4886

Samuel B. Johnson left last week for Beckley, W. Va.. to visit his daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Waller. The auxiliary of Pioneer Post No. :*40 of

opening of the Grand Terrace last Saturday with a new handsome . . . I think she called him Georgia-

porgy.

former resident of Indianapolis and chef at the Shrine Temple, died Friday evening at his residence, 1340 College avenue. The body was returned to 317 Harding avenue. Funeral services were held Alonday afternoon at 1:30 from the Second Baptist church with burial in Grandview cemetery.

LOGANSPORT. INDIANA

Air. and Airs. Charles Aloore and

the' American Legion will open their son and daughter of Excelsior Springs

NEW LONDON, OHIO

Mrs. Sanford is visiting relatives

party.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1933— , „ ^ „ ... . . . . at her home. Little Rosaetter AlorA life size bust of Clarence man continues to improve. M. Vick Cameron White, celebrated compos- and Richard Bowman of the ^c.^C. C.

er and violinist was unveiled in

years activities September 26th with ] Mo., w’ere the guests of Airs. Aloore a a chicken dinner. The last Wednesday ; mother, _ Mre. Alary Ala^ry, James

of oach month is regular meeting night. All members are reguested to i.p nrespnt. F. AT. Hart, president,

Svlvia Blake, secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Lda Shepherd and

Fun ice Miles daughter. Ruth Estella : Chicago Heights were the guests of n nd son Tov of Green castle spent ; Airs. Effie Harris and her brother Wednesday evening as the guest of , Hayward Artis, Labor day. Mr. jind

Tyler, who has spent several months in Kansas City, returned with them. Air. and Airs. Sam Wright, Miss

Mr. Gaskin of

Indiana building of the Hall of States at a Century of Progress this week.

camp are visiting relatives here. H.

Tate is ill at his home. R. S. E. D. iClarence D Hf T 't at j Mrs. Homer Hill and Airs. J. W. Parand E. M. Evege, were in Norwalk j -' r- • ‘ tr „ t Miss Evelvn Young j ker have returned from attending the

revival will the f, OUS e guest of Dr Hill reunion in Ohio. Airs. James and Airs W \ Edwards. Mr. ondj Turner of Seattle. Wash., and Mrs. Mrs. ’Brooks ’ of 'Charleston. W. A r a., | AlacNary of Chicago were guests of

FRANKFORT AND LEBANON,

INDIANA

Oliver Weir motored to Greencastle Monday evening. Jessie Roscoe Fanning spent several days as the guests of Gene Dinsay in Lebanon. Mrs. Minnie Rickman has returned from Rockville where she carried her son to a specialist. All the members

are requested to pay

claims Sunday.

last week on business. A revival will start September 16 at the Church of God In Christ on JNorth Maple street. Miss Virginia Evege rendered a musical recital at the First AI. E. church FHday evening. Rev. Byrd will fill his

Sunday morning. Airs.

MADISON VI LLE, KY.

Airs. Cullie Logan underwent m. Sunday morning. Airs, operation at the hospital. Mesdames : ^ ^{eward and Mrs. Alyrtle Moman, Allie Patterson and Ella Trice aie ; j n Ashland, Friday Mrs.

Elzria. Emmett

Evege

e raiicraou and Ella Trice i c .v, fmr , pd

ill. Rev. and Mrs. J. Darden have re- j; arab Evege went to Elzria. Emmett turned from Oville, Tenn., where the> ^ a * Joe Bradford Thursday.

attended a board meeting. Rev. \\ ill ; ■* Johnson continues ill at his home i wo-rnw Services at the East View Baptist BLOOMINGTON,

church over the week-end were spon- Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson spent sored by the Jubilee choir. Mrs. Em- j Labor day in Indianapolis, the guest ma Clark Johnson of Indianapolis, who Q f friends and attended the Ball has been visiting friends has returned gamein Haughville. Miss Grace Bebby

home. Mrs. Ora Lee Payne of Guth-

INDIANA

rie was in the city last week. Air. and Mrs. Allen Patton. Ike and Charlie Wooldridge have returned from Chicago, where they attended the World’s Fair. Mrs. Lavana Quarels has returned from Akron, O. The East View Baptist church celebrated the third anniversary of the pastor, Rev. J. Darden, August 27 through

conference September 2nd. Rev. Darden was pre-

sented a special donation each night.

Indianapolis, spent the week here as the guest of Mrs. E. S. A. Anderson and Georgia Evans. Miss Lillian Crawford, Indianapolis, visited in the city, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Slater and friends, Indianapolis were visitors here Sunday afternoon. Kenneth Jackson, Evansville, visited in the city recently. Mr. and Mrs. James Watson and son James, Jr., Chicago have returned home after visiting relatives. Miss Cora Lee Beatty, Jen-

NOBLESVI LLE, INDIANA

T**? rSFOOKS ul v iirti *-''**• * • • ■ — — — — — — — c — ■ — o

Wo- nav. ^ ^ .53?.

for no’ints in Ohio and will arrive anapolis last week,

in Charleston. September 14. Dr. Troy Smith of Chicago, was in the citv

several days l* 8 * hppn j Richardson Jones and Miss Lucille father, Robert Smith ‘ - . Robbins were quietly married in Indicuite ill an d . 1S , co JJvil n ,.i>,„w™-9kin anapolis, Wednesday, September 5th. thony’s hospital. T . he o .„ B (1 vridav Miss Robbins is the charming daughRevue” which is , he „. a nr ,_ nrnP ter of Air. and Airs. Alfred Robbins September 21st at the Hi P ’ nd and a graduate of the Sheridan high . ereivlng the finishing 1 school class of 1934. Air. Jones is the will soon be having ‘ u i‘ ar ' t grandson of Rev. Barney Stone, civil sals. Dr. J. Boo Yf,r . ' . or^hes- i wa i' veteran and prominent in fraterwnrk at the Mavo Clini .1 na j and political circles. Rev. CourtMinn. The Junior Legion t i nev. castor of Gleneo Bactist church

ter

ganized

last week

ht, Pioneer Post ! ne >', pastor of Gleneo Baptist church by hho | Indianapolis preached for Rev. War-

** . T rm Tnp ! mu pi iui rwtiv. vv til - No. 340 of the American t-efnoni. ; last Sunday Mrs j M Nichols, following officers were elect . . widow of the late Rev. Nichols has oarAt»in : Owens r>. Icrened t— cn*

Gordon, ca P ta ' ,n ' ’’ ^Jhiu- I craned the Dew-Drop-Inn at 671 lieutenant: Winston Hannibal street and solicit the patant: Mr. and Mrs. Richar T tvonage of her friends. Lee Hammon

has returned home from a visit to her

mother in Detroit. Alich. Airs. Mary Granger after a brief visit with her parents has returned to Indianapolis.