Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1920 — Page 2

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EXTENSION WORK PLANNED BY I. U. Complete Courses in Commerce to Be Given Here. For the first time In the history of the Indiana university extension division complete courses in commerce, covering a period of three years, are offered In the curriculum of the extension classes "which open Oct 4. The commerce courses will be held in the old city dispensary building. Market street and Senate avenue, and the academic classes will be held at Shortridge high school, both being under the supervision ol J. J. Pettijohn, director of the extension division. All classes in the commerce courses will be held in the evening, and the academic classes will be in the late afternoon and evening. Certificates will be granted to students who complete a three years’ course in commerce, filling certain specifications made for the work. University credits is also given for certain courses in this department. THREE-YEAR COU RSES IN FIVE SUBJECTS. Five three-year courses will be given, general business, accounting, insurance, marketing and advertising and secretarial work. While there Is a different program of subjects for each of the five courses, certain subjects are required in all the courses, and a number of elective subjects are permitted. The courses are planned for high school graduates who enter business immediately after leaving school and for adults already engaged in business. The purpose is to give technical training in different lines of business. The couVse in accounting is designed to meet the needs of persons who wish to prepare for positions as expert accountants and the course in marketing and advertising is Intended for those having to do with distribution and sale of commodities, and with advertising and merchandising, and with advertising and publicity. Robert E. Cavanaugh will have charge of the academic courses at Shortridge. I. U. INSTRUCTORS WILL DIRECT WORK. A number of new courses which have not been offered in the four years’ existence of the department will be offered this year. Courses in the following departments will be given under the direction Os Indiana university instructors: English, history, fine arts, Spanish, education, physiology, psychology, hygiene, eugenics, economics, political science, journalism, mathematlca and French. A bulletin explaining the tuition fees, entunce requirements, the enumeration ana nature of the courses will be Issued by the university extension department within a few weeks. A partial list of the instructors who will teach at the school of commerce inclules Dr. Frank Strelghtoff, A. L. Prickett and James Moffett. Among the instructors from the university who will teach at Shortridge are Dr. Will T. Hale, Morris Fulton, H. T. Stephenson, H. G. Childs, W. F. Book, Kate Miller Rabb, Mary B. Orvis, Prof. Lynch, Alfred Erooks, Prof. Ivttson and C. W. Snow.

DEMOCRATIC HUT AT FAIR PLANNED Service of All Kinds to Be Given Visitors. The community hut at the state fair, conducted by the Democratic Women's Service league, will be one of the big features of the work of the democratic women. The purpose of the booth, which will be located west of the administration building, will be to give service to all visitors at the fair. It will be under the supervision ol James W. Mellen of the democratic state central committee, who is asking that all young women who would like to serve nt the booth communicate with him at Room 79, Denison hotel. A musical program also will be included In the service of the hut. The text of Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke’s message to the American women on the league of nations will be published in pamphlet form and distributed within a few days by the democratic women’s headquarters. In discussing the attitude of the two political parties regarding the issue, Mrs. Clarke says: “The democratic party has indorsed the league of nations, the republican party has repudiated it, and now It remains for the American people to undo the wrong of the United States senate and again raise the country to its former prestige and again place it on the side of right.” TO ORGANIZE CLUBS THROUGHOUT STATE. The organization of league of nations clubs throughout the state by Miss Hazel Fesler will bo another feature of the democratic women In bringing the league of nations before the women. li. order to vote intelligently in November,’’ declared Miss Fesler. “ the young women must know the meaning of the league of nations, which is the primary issue of this campaign. “It is my purpose to get the young girls who have just come to voting age interested in their country, and the least patriotic thing they can do for their country is to register.” Miss Fesler declared the time is past for the young girl to let her mother and the club worker do all the talking and thinking. „ “The yonng woman x has a strong influence among her family and friends, although she may not realize It,” she stated. In the Interest of the league of nations Miss Fesler is planning a series of short talks before audiences of the motion picture houses. It Is her purpose to be supplemented by a short talk by an ex-service man. Bert New, secretary of the state central commit'ec, said that the league of nations is u moral Issue, and can not l<e settled as a partisan dispute.

NEW NEGRO VOTE STRONG VOTE (Continued From Page One.) Tance the political and social interests of their children. Northern cities have received thousands of these newly-weds since armistice day. ANSWERED CALL OF GOVERNMENT. About 3,000 colored men and women reported to the government In response to the nation-wide request for clerical workers needed for war activities. Be cause of the policy of the administrn tion, many of these were not accepted, even though they had passed the required civil service examinations. Those who happened to obtain appoint ments were among the first to be d< mobilized. Few of either lot returned to tb south. Instead, they scattered to north ern cities. The expansion of negro business en terprises provided employment for their abilities. The last and most durable type of southern migrant is the great number of middle-aged negroes who were at one time employed upon construction contra/!t£ at such places as Norfolk, Nitro, W. Va.; Brunswick, Ga. ; Jacksonville. Fla., and Muscle Shoals, Ala., at wages

far exceeding the scale for which they had previously worked. It Is impossible to place any estimate upon the number of these folk who, In this manner, earned the money with which to finance the removal of their families to northern cities. The service records at the plants served at once as a reference and a creator of the necessary confidence for such a venture. * Without seeking them, the writer has encountered representatives of this group in a dozen different cities. Some of them were acquaintances at Either munition plants or camps. These people are of the more Intelligent type, and are seeking political opportunity for themselves and better educational facilities for their children. Their presence will have an appreciable effect upon the election. A national negro weekly, the Chicago Defender, and The Crisis, a monthly, both have for a long time conducted editorial campaigns encouraging this class of self-capitalized migrant. Os course, many of these are arriving at their northern destinations too late to qualify for participation in this year’s election. They Will, however, prove an asset to the party in that they will Influence the more derelict of the earlier arrivals, who, but for such pressure, migbt neglect their opportunities, notwithstanding the efforts of practical politicians.

GOT PEEVED AT TREATMENT. There is a nation-wide dissatisfaction among colored people with the treatment accorded them by Mr. Wilson's administration. This feeling amounts to a positive resentment with those who experienced the discriminations practiced in centers of government service during the war. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has, through Its local organizations, collected complete data on this subject. The information is tabulated in the general office, and is kept up to date by constant revision. The Bureau of Record and Research of Tuskegee compiles a year boob from similar information. The latter obtains its knowledge from southern sources and the o*her more directly from northern cities. These Institutions are so interested in negro affairs as to give responsibility to their views. Facts have been obtained from both sources and supplemented by observations in a number of cities. According to the above named authorities an increase in the negro population is particularly noticeable in the following states. Connecticut N>w York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and California. Oue of the tables herewith shows the estimated increase in the negro population in some of the cities in these states. The other table contains comparative figures based upon negro males of voting age in the states. This table was compiled a of October* 119, and takes no consideration of arrivals since that time. The white population in these states has had an uverage Increase of 29 per cent. This increase is of course divided among the different political parties, while the 81 per cent increase in negro voting population is substantially republican.

TAKE NO RECORD OF WOMAN VOTE. These figures take no regard of the woman vote. The National Association of Colored Women's clubs has maintained a persistent campaign toward keeping colored women prepared to take advantage of new concessions afforded as woman suffrage progresses toward national success. With the exception of New York and Pennsylvania the above named states have a total of 157 electoral votes. There are substantial negro Increases in all of them. In the city of New York the Haiiera colony has expanded from 6O,(JO0 in 1915 tc well over 120,000 at present. However, about 50 per cent of this Increase consists of unnaturalized British subjects from the West Indies. They feel a certain distinction In their allegiance to England and until recently resisted all efforts to naturalize them. This situation is improving now and there is a pronounced increase in tiie number making applications for their firs* papers. This Is due to the ban England has placed upon emigration from the colonies, because those who wish to visit their native Islands are insured the privilege of returning by qualifying for United .States passports. Inconsistent as it may seem, none of them care to return for good to their homes; yet none can forego the pleasure of a visit In order to display their comparative wealth to the less adventurous pnes. Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and the towns along the Hudson river have more than doubled the negro registration of previous elections during the local elections of 1919. In Ohio, Dayton, Uolumbns, Youngstown and Akron have colored popula tions that in the last five years have Increased from 300 to 500 per cent. Some smaller towns now have a dozen or more families tha four or five years since contained perhaps a lonely negro hotel porter, or in some Instances not even one negro. In Cleveland that parti of Control avenue that is a negro thoroughfare might have been traversed during Wilson’s first campaign in about fifteen minutes. Today the black belt extends along Central avenue from Fourteenth to Seventeenth street and overflows Into •Scovill and Woodland avenues. Besides this there is a generous sprinkling of*coiored residents throughout the town.

SITUATION IN INDIANAPOLIS. The expansion of the negro colony in Indianapolis Is at ones apparent to any visitor familiar with the city. The colored district bordering on Indiana avenue and North West street is Ihree times the the colored district .ts it was known in 1914. Evansville, Terre Haute and South Bend have had large increases of the

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kind of negroes who take root in a community. In a great measure the} are of the type that are seeking the political opportunities denied them m the south. Gary’s steel mills have in ten years assembled a negro settlement of nearly 10,000. These new Hooslers have bought millions of dollars worth of property and are there to stay. Many of them are experienced iron and steel workers from Alabama and Tennessee. They are taking an active part in local politics and seem to have good leadership. \ In Chicago, what was ten years ago a colony of 25,000 negroes “out State street” is now one of more than 75,000-. They are in absolute control of the Second Ward and hold the balance of power In three more south side wards, as well as in one on each the north and the west sides of the city. Springfield. Decatur and the southern end of the state, known as “Egypt” to Illinois politicians, all contain many more negroes than heretofore. Brooklyn, just across the river from St. Louis, is a solid colored town of nearly <B,OOO. In Michigan Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Pontiac and Jackson show increases. In one Detroit factory where thirty negro porters were employed in 1914 there is now employed 3,000 mechanics and laborers. Another concern has over 1,300 persons of color on its pay rolls. Detroit’s negro population is now more than four times that of 1910. St. Antoine street, in the Fifth ward, is the Lenox avenue of a well fixed, as well as numerous, colony. > FEW NEGROES IN FAR WEST. In way off California, whose thirteen electoral votes decided the last presidential election, there are comparatively few negroes, except in Los Angeles and Oakland. In the rural districts Mexicans and Orientals perform the work usual to colored people. Both the cities named register increases in the number of colored citizens. In fact, Los Angeles has a negro colony along Central avenue, from Third

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to Fiftieth street, that gives It quite a resemblance to State street In Chicago, or to our own Harlem. About 40,000 colored people reside In the district. This represents about 80 per .cent, increase since the 1916 election, when California was lost to the republican party by less than 5,000 votes. There wore enough negro votes wilfully neglected to have changed the result had they been brought out on election day. The old republican keystone, Pennsylvania. haR had great increases in Philadelphia and in the Pittsburg district, notably great In the smoky town. Altoona, Harrisburg, Bethlehem and York, as well as many smaller towns, have hail numbers added to their negro contingent. A decrease *’rom high tide Is noticeable In the Steelton district, south of the state capital. The state is so safe, however, that these may be spared v/ithout anxiety. Some sections of Maryland have likewise had abnormal additions to the negro column in the census reports. The growth has by no means been confined to the cities or states mentioned. Attention has been especially attracted

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to these because of political possibilities with which the situation Is charged. Aside from enrollment, certain in the present campaign, this gradual distribution of negroes over the country is rapidly nationalizing the race problem, so long held in public regard as an Issue with which the south alone was concerned. An indication of both the strength and the aggressive political interest of the negro is reflected in the greater number of colored candidates aspiring to office during the lßt four years. New York and Cleveland, Chicago and Baltimore have elected negro councllmn or aldermen, as the lawmakers are designated in the different cities. In New York, Illinois and West Virginia the electing of negro assemblymen or legislators has become a matter of habit in certain districts—a negro is at present a candidate for the Colorado legislature from one Denver district. The negroes of Harlem are now trying to settle upon a candidate to represent New York negroes in congress. Minor offices throughout the country have been filled by negro incumbents during the last few years. The republican national committee evi-

dently does not intend to neglect any votes this time. It has been customary to designate a committee member to handle the negro element. This supervision has become more or less perfunctory since 1908. This year it will not be so. Henry Lincoln Johnson, national committeeman from Georgia, a negro lawyer with considerable executive ability, has been placed in charge. It devolves upon him to minimize that characteristic carelessness that is responsible for neglected registration, to counteract democratic promises and the temptation contained in the sort of personal appeal made by practical politicians of a certain stripe. It Is bis duty to prevent the colored brothers “falling” for propaganda of the socialists or the “committee of 48.” A most thorough performance of the job may be expected from “Link” Johnson, as he is familiarly known among his people, as he Is a big man physically, mentally and in the estimation of his race. He Is a fluent orator and has an Intimate knowledge of the subjects now occupying the thoughts of his people. He has held several public offices, the

last being that of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia during the Taft administration. He is the grand attorney for the United Order of Odd Fellows of Georgia, as well as legal adviser to several negro Insurance companies and commercial corporations. His fight for control of the state delegation, won at the very door of the national convention, sufficiently attests to his political ability. The success of Georgia enterprises under his legal guidance has provided an experience in business practices that should be of valuable assistance in shaping up his organization. Philip Brown of Kentucky has already been placed in charge of the publicity section of this bureau. The section is expected to supply the 250 negro weeklies and more than a hundred periodicals with matter calculated to maintain race interest in the campaign. ALWAYS HARD WORKER. “Link” is a respecter of conventionalities, but he can not work well when too thoroughly dressed up, even though he looks well In the traditional frock coat and top hat. There are doubtless already several

well blackened corncob pipe* about the offices of the national committee in the Audiiorlu mhotel at Chicago, toi where ’’Link” works there is his pipe. He will organize a speakers’ bureau that will include a corps of negro orators to Interpret the campaign issue to these people, with particular emphasis upon the phases of the greatest Importance to their race. A branch of this bnrean will endeavor to locate and determine the make of the record playing Instruments that grace colored homes and neighborhood assembly places, so as to facilitate the distribution of “canned” speeches of the candidates. It is a safe bet that it will take more than the chill of a lake breeze to make "Link’* keep his coal on when he is working out an idea or explaining its workings to the boys. “Link’s” shirt sleeves conferences are well known In Georgia, where the old cob pipe and his slow measured words hare Ironed out and adjusted many fraternal differences. With Mr. Johnson riding hard on the colored vote, Tammany and the Cook county democracy or other sinister politicians of democratic persuasion are going to find it difficult to stampede them from the old reservation.