General Race News
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GRAND PAGEANT TO BE
PRESENTED AT CAPITOL
Washington,, D. C., Sept. 24.—The
DuBois pageant, “The Star of Ethi
opia,” is scheduled to be presented
three times during the week of Oc
tober 10 at the American league base
ball park. One thousand participants
of both sexes and all ages will be re
quired for the production and an ad
vertisement for performers has ap
peared in a local paper. They will
represent Kushites, Egyptians, Mo
hammedans, Bantus, West Indians,
dancing girls, freedmen, children, etc.,
all concerned with the development
of the Negro race from the beginning
of time to the present day. The af
fair is promoted by the National Pa
geant and Dramatic association,
which has been incorporated under
the laws of the District by Mr. L. M. j
Hershaw and others.
J. Rosmand Johnson of New York
is to direct the music, and Mr. E. S.
Burroughs of Wilberforce university
is to have charge of the dramatic fea
tures. The production is to celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of the attop
tion of the Thirteenth amendment to
the constitution of the United States.
A NEGRO OF HONEST FAME
(From the Hudson Dispatch, Hoboken
New Jersey.)
Joe Jeannette, Negro, has retired
from the prize ring, quitting the so
called profession after years of hon
est ring battles. So far as fighting
goes, he was a credit to that kind of
sport. He always put up a good
fight—the best that as in him—and
that is the reason he was always so
popular and such a good drawing
card. He was temperate in his
habits and was always fit to fight. It
may seem paradoxical, but he was a
merciful fighter; he was not a brute;
he never took advantage of a man
whom he outclassed by giving him
the beating that would have been pos
sible. In basketball, in which game
he was also a star, he could display
his marvelous strength to make op
ponents look ridiculous, if he so de
sired, but he never roughed it, and
alays deported himself as a gentle
man.
ILLINOIS METHODISTS
WANT NO NEGRO BISHOP
Springfield, 111., Sept. 24.—When a
resolution was introduced into the
Illinois conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church on Monday, Septem
ber 13, petitioning the general con
ference to elect a Negro bishop, the
conference refused to pass it, al
though a strong fight in its favor was
made by the Rev. J. A. Kumler of
Hamilton, Ohio.
Dr. Kumler declared thai there
%were Negroes in the M. E. church who
would be an honor to Methodist epis
copacy and declared that “when we
push this people out of the church,
Christ will feel himself a stranger to
it.”
Roscoe Conklin Bruce, assistant su
perintendent of schools of Washing
ton, D. C., who was seriously injured
in an automobile accident, some
months ago, is unable to assume his
school duties.
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“BIRTH OF A NATION CAUSES
RIOT IN PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia has had a riot. “The
Dirth of the Nation” caused it. Hav
ing appealed unsuccessfuly to the
mayor of the city and the governor of
the state to prohibit the presentation
of Dixon’s distasteful photo-play, an
assemblage of colored citizens esti
mated at 5,000, among whom were
many white sympathizers, marched
to the Forrest theater to prol.eal
against its appearance. As the crowd
was orderly all went well until some
one hurled a brick through the thea
ter window. One hundred police then
charged the crowd and in the brief
fight which ensued some of Philadel
phia’s best colored citizens were in
jured and some of the police did not
escape without painful bruises.
It is to be regretted that the au
thorities did not heed the respectful
plea of its petitioners. The Philadel
phians did absolutely right in pro
testing in boots. Their intentions
were of the best. They did not seek
trouble. The unfortunate feature
was '.hat some hot-headed and
doubtless irresponsible member of
the crowd threw a brick, which gave
the police an excuse, if not a reason,
for charging and dispersing the
crowd. The protest succeeded. The
photoplay was ordered taken off the
boards by the mayor. If this action
had been taken in the first place the
subsequent trouble would have been
avoided.
GERMAN WAITERS TAKE
PLACES FROM NEGROES
Paterson, N. J., Sept. 15.—Sixteen
Germans and Austrians who have
been interned at Hoboken on the Ger
man ships were given jobs on Monday
at the Hamilton club, to which the
mayor and other prominent officials
belong. The Negro employes who
have been there for many years were
discharged.
Charles I. Morey, superintendent, is
responsible for the change, which is
evidently one of the steps being taken
to care for the Germans forced to
stay in this country because of the
war.
GEORGIANS LYNCH NEGRO BOY;
FACES HIS DEATH STOICALLY
Jackson, Ga., Sept. 24.—Jce Per
sons, a negro boy not more than 14
years old, was hanged here today for
assaulting an 8-year-old white girl. To
the half hundred persons around the
scaffold the boy admitted he commit
ted the crime and stoically announced
he was ready to die.
Although he weighed only seventy
five pounds, his neck was broken by
the fall. Officers did not attach
weights to Persons, as had been sug
gested to them as possibly necessary
to successfully execute him.
HANDLES OVER HAIF
A MILLION DOLLARS
The Supreme Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias which recently met at Co
lumbus, O., reported some very sub
stantial, financial and numerical ad
vancement. Over half a million dol
lars have been handled through the
executive officers since the last meet
ing and the enrollment of members
now stands a. 250,000 of the Pythias
and 87,000 of the Courts of Calanthe.
MEMBER STATE DENTAL SOCIETY
Newark, N. J., Sept. 24.—Wendell
P. G. Urling, D. D. S„ la the only living
Negro member of the New Jersey
State Dental society, having been
elected to membership of that or
ganization at Asbury Park.
In sending the notice to Dr. Urling,
the secretary of the society, Dr. John
C. Forsythe, took opportunity to pay
a tribute to Howard university, from
which institution Dr. Urling graduat
ed in 1904. Through proficiency and
worthiness Dr. Urling has built up a
splendid clientele in this city.
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