News of the Churches
and Religious Topics
Directory.
Baptist—
Bethel—Twenty-ninth and T streets
South Omaha. The Rev. J. C. Brown,
pastor, residence 467 South Thirty
first street. Services, Morning, 11;
evening, 7:30; Sunday School lp.m.;
B. Y. P. B„ 6:30 p. m.; praise service,
7:30 p. m.
Mt. Moriah—Twenty-sixth and Sew
ard streets. The Rev. W. B. M. Scott,
pastor. Services: Sunday School, 9:30
a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. in.;
B. Y. P. U. at 6 p. m.
Zion — Twenty-sixth and Franklin
(temporary location). The Rev. W. F.
Botts, pastor; residence, 2522 Grant
street. Telephone Webster 5838. Ser
vices: Devotional hour, 10:30 a. m.;
preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School,
1 to 2 p. m.; pastor’s Bible class, 2 to
3 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; choir
devotion, 7:30 p. m.; preaching 8 p. m.
Episcopal—
Church of St. Philip the Deacon—
Twenty-first near Paul street. The
Rev. John Albert Williams, rector.
Residence, 1119 North Twenty-first
street. Telephone Webster 4243. Ser
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vices daily at 7 a. m. and 9 a. m. Fri
days at 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 a.
m., 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
School at 12:45 p. m.
Methodist—
Allen Chapel, A. M. E., 181 South
Twenty-fifth street, South Omaha.—
The Rev. Harry Shepherd, pastor.
Residence, 181 South Twenty-fifth
street. Services: Preaching, 11 a.
m.; Sunday School, 1:30 p. m.
Grove M. E.—Twenty-second and
Seward streets. The Rev. G. G. Logan,
pastor. Residence, 1628 North Twen
ty-second street. Services: Sunday
School at 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m.; Epworth League,
6:30 p. m.
St. John’s A. M. E.—Eighteenth and
Webster streets. The Rev. W. T. Os
borne, pastor. Residence, 613 North
Eighteenth street. Telephone Doug
las 5914. Services: Sunday, 11 a. m.
and 8 p. m., preaching; 12 noon, class;
1:15 p. m„ Sunday School; 7 p. m.,
Endeavor; Wednesday, 8 p. m., pray
er and class meetings. Everybody
made welcome at all of these meet
ings.
Science Notes
BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES.
ft.
How Excitement Relieves Fatigue.
Every one knows from his own ex
perience how intense excitement or
alarm may act as a powerful stimulus
to a jaded body, calling forth unsus
pected stores of energy. This ex
plains not only some seemingly mir
aculous exploits in rescues from fire,
drowning or other sudden perils, but
also some of the heroic deeds so com
mon In war. The scientific reason
for these sudden outbursts of energy
from an aparently exhausted body is
set forth in an article contributed by
Professor Jakobi to the Munchener
Medizinische Woehensehrift and quot
ed in the April-May number of the
Naturwissenschaftliche Umschau, a
supplement of the Chemiker Zeitung
(Berlin), June 4th.
Professor Jakobi observes that a
very high degree of fatigue, such as
is caused by a long march, continued
hard labor, making intrenchments,
etc., is commonly, but incorrectly,
called exhaustion. This state of in
capacity for exertion, he says, is bet
ter defined as an extreme degree of
' fatigue, which may indeed lead to
complete exhaustion. He says:
"This high degree of fatigue is due
to the fact that strenuous and contin
ued solution of energy in a muscle re
sults in an alteration taking place in
the blood-vessels which supply it, and
correspondingly in the current of
blood supplied. By reason of this the
metabolic processes in the muscle
(and moreover, those of more distant
organs and even of the nervous ap
paratus) are influenced in such wise
that it becomes increasingly difficult
for the body to make use of the en
ergy-producing material on hand, even
though such material be very plenti
ful.
"Now it is a well-known fact that
by imbibing preparations of the group
of substances which contain caffein,
such as coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa,
etc., the first symptoms of fatigue
can be successfully overcome. This
favorable influence rests partly in the
fact that these substances facilitate
the power of the muscle to react to
the impulse of innervation. * * *
It is known, however, that caffein it
self, as well as the etheric oils in tea
and the empyreumatic products in the
decoction of roasted coffee, stimulate
the nervous center controlling the
blood-vessels (Gefaszzentrum), so
that in this way the relaxation of the
arteries is diminished and there re
sults a favorable distribution of blood.
Herein lies the reason for the lavish
use by our troops of coffee, tea, coca
cola and chocolate. But such prepa
rations are incapable of relieving se
vere fatigue—the so-called 'exhaus
tion,’ for a very long time.”
But Nature herself, Professor Jak
obi points out, has made a very won
derful provision for influencing the
blood-vessels so as to produce in
creased blood pressures, with corre
sponding influx of energy, under con
ditions of exceptional danger, which
imperil life itself.
“It is a well-known circumstance
that the powerful psychic stimuli of
the emotions of fear and anxiety, as
well as great excitement or enthu
siasm, render even a seriously fa
tigued person capable of uncommonly
great exertion, i. e„ expenditure of en
ergy, and that, too, for a surprisingly
long time. This is readily explained
by the fact that a mental impression
received by the cerebrum may operate
as an extraordinarily effective and ex
tensive stimulus to the whole vascu
lar system. In this way we may ac
count for the extraordinary outputs of
energy which take place in war, far
surpassing ordinary efforts, both in
amount and in duration, as the effect
of mental stimulus acting directly up
on the blood-vessels which supply the
muscles.”—Scientific American.
Mother (who is teaching her child
the alphabet)—Now, dearie, what
comes after “g”?
The Child—Whiz!—Judge.
DISFRANCHISEMENT AND
NON-REPRESENTATION
(Continued from first page.)
congress, or scarcely In the legisla
tures of the various states, and taxed,
oftentimes unfairly, and always unrep
resented—the very issue upon which
the revolution of 1776 was based. No
other people in the United States are
discriminated against in this way. The
Irish, the Germans, the Jews and even
the Indians are represented in the
government, but not a colored con
gressman has been in Washington
since George White was driven from
public life in consequence of the Wil
mington massacre years ago. This is
indefensible, and all this chatter about
Negro domination is too silly to talk
about. It is on a par with the defense
of lynching, when every court from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande is en
tirely in the hands of white men.
Colored Women Need Protection.
“To put it forth as a necessity for
the protection of southern womanhood
is hypocrisy gone daft. It is not
white, but colored womanhood, that
needs protection. Any man familiar
with conditions knows that where one
white woman is attacked by the con
ventional black brute there are a
thousand girls seduced by white men.
“It is not a question of virtue, but
ambition for power, power in the state
and power in the nation, that consti
tutes the driving force of the anti
Negro crusade, and has been ever
since the war. There is not race prej
udice in the South. In the South there
is only caste. The Negro is not phys
I ically repulsive in Dixie—quite the
contrary. If the Negro were physical
ly repulsive, then how do you account
for the two or three million mulattos,
octoroons and quadroons? It is al
most impossible to find an audience of
real black people anywhere in the
South.
"Instead of being held before the
world as a race of lawless rapists, that
have to be lynched to be held in sub
jection, the South should erect a mon
ument in their honor. Why? Ily the
way in which they guarded the wives
and families of the masters who were
fighting to hold them in bondage. By
proving false to the trust, they could
have weakened the southern armies,
and aided in their destruction. How?
By attacking the women. That would
have brought back the confederate
army by the hundreds and thousands.
So far as wo know, not a single ease
is on record. This idea is not an idea
of a northerner, but was expressed to
me only a month ago by Colonel John
Temple Graves, a southerner, and one
whose loyalty to the lost cause is un
questioned.
“It is time for the South to wake up,
for the New South to assert itself.
Think of a race that can reduce its
illiteracy from ninety-nine per cent to
less than forty per cent in fifty years,
notwithstanding all the obstacles that j
have been thrown in the way! Why,
the public school system of the South
had its origin in the black man’s rule.
If wras the colored people who started
the first public school in the South.
What!—‘The Clansman?” It is the
most infamous perversion of history
that has ever been presented to the
American people, in its attempts to
deify the Klu Klux Klan with the
lynchers of the reconstruction period.
The only difference between the Klu
Klux Klan and the lynching mobs of
today is that the Klu Klux Klan work
ed by night, but their successors,
grown brazen, work now by day. I
know all about this clatter of abuse
of power. Possibly the Negroes rev
elling in their new-found freedom,
went to excess just as white folks
have done under similar circum
stances. But if every dollar stolen
or wrongfully appropriated by the Ne
groes while in power were turned into
gold and put in the scale and weighed
against that stolen by the white po
litical rings of New York and Pennsyl
vania, it would kick the beam so high
as to make your head swim.
Beginning of the End.
“How long will this go on? I don’t
pretend to predict. But this I will
say, that that decision of the United
States supreme court the other day
wiping out as unconstitutional the in
famous ‘grandfather clause,’ was the
beginning of the end. Coming on the
heels of the peonage decision that end
ed physical slavery in the woods and
swamps, it marks a new era in the
story of the colored race in Georgia.
1 rejoice particularly not only because
it was the unanimous action of the
supreme court, but also that the opin
ion should have been written by a
Southerner, a Confederate officer, who
is the presiding justice of the high
court. It shows what I have always
contended—that there are two Souths,
the new and old, the progressive and
the reactionary, the wise and the fool
ish. Nothing better typifies the re
actionary South than a little incident
which happened to me in a little
Southern town. I arrived on Sunday.
I wanted to see the famous lynching
oak, which had to its record the hang
ing of ten Negroes in a few years, tne
most recent being a lad of thirteen
years. As I stood trying to get my
bearings for the tree, an officer ap
proached me and told me I must keep
off the street. ‘You are evidently a
stranger,’ he said. ‘You do not know
our custom. Every one is in church
at this hour, and those who do not
go to church are expected, during ser
vices, to keep off the street.’
Educate White Environment.
“There is only one thing to do that
will clean up this whole mass of ig
norance, and that is the enactment of
federal-aided education. There is no
use educating the black boy unless
you educate the white environment.
It only makes things harder for him.
The Negro’s environment must be
made better, more unprejudiced, more
tolerant, more enlightened, if he is to
have the full benefits of education and
culture. Give the South good schools,
in abundance, and an administration
of its affairs will follow—at least, that,
is a reasonable probability. Long ex
perience favors such a conclusion.”
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