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General Race News GRAND ARMY POST PUTS BAN ON “CLANSMAN” San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 10.—The Grand Army of the Republic in a strong attack has put the ban on “The Clansman,” called by motion picture men the masterpiece of film drama. The post also recommends that the films be suppressed. The resolutions adopted by the post were made public by George H. Thomas, Post No. 2, department of California and Nevada. The order charges that “the film slanderously misrepresents the Fed eral soldier engaged in suppressing the rebellion and maintaining the in tegrity of the nation. It attempts to throw the mantle of esrpectability around the infamous bandits called the Ku Klux Klan. Its tendency is to engender hatred against the Negro race and against the colored troops who fought gallantly for their own freedom.” The Grand Army post winds up its broadside by characterizing “The Clansman” as being “false in senti ment, false in history, false in fact.” BONE FROM NEGRO MAY SAVE WHITE MAN’S LEG Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 10.—An ex periment that is being watched with much interest is the grafting of a part of the bone from an amputated leg of a Negro boy to the fractured leg of a white man, which fracture had refused to knit properly. This operation was performed at the Cooper hospital, where Alfred Menoken, a Negro boy of eleven, wounded by a gunshot so that a leg had to be amputated, and John Hyde, a white man of 56. with a fractured leg, occupied beds in the same ward. The refusal of Hyde’s leg to re spond to the usual treatment puzzled the surgeons and they finally de cided to try the plan of grafting the bone from the Negro's amputated leg to that of the white man’s fractured leg. WEALTHY GEORGIAN DIES AT SAVANNAH Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10.—The death of George S. Williams, 414 West Duffy street, on Sunday, November 2-, removes from life the first Negro who built a large office building for Negro tenants in Georgia. Mr. Williams was in the United States mail service and invested his savings by erecting an office building on West Broad street. Ill health com pelled his resignation from the mail service several years ago, since when he has devoted all his spare time to his large realty holdings. DREW WILL COME BACK. If reports from San Francisco and Los Angeles are true, Howard P. Drew, the greatest amateur sprinter the world has ever seen, will meas ure strides with Joe Loomis of Chi cago at the big indoor meet of the Millrose association to be held in January. It is Drew’s desire to beat Joe Loomis, who beat him at 100 yards at the exposition championships on the coast last summer. Since that defeat Drew took a much neded rest and has now resumed training. By the middle of January he expects to be on fine edge. It is probable that Roy Morse will toe the mark in the same race. HARRISBURG UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO NEGRO Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 10.—A recent event that has attracted much atten tion was the unveiling by the city of Harrisburg of a memorial to the memory of Dr. William H. Jones, a Negro, who served several terms on the school board and was a man of wide popularity among all races. This is the first time in Harris burg’s history that this city has so honored a Negro. The memorial is in the shape of a fountain at the en trance of the Twelfth street play grounds, and the committee in charge of the dedication included both col ored and white men. The speakers included Mayor John E. Royal and Dr. Hugh Hamilton of the Dauphin County Medical associa tion, and the ceremony was in charge of James E. Auter of the executive department of the state capitol. BOOKKEEPER FOR WHITE FIRM IN MISSISSIPPI Gunnison, Miss., Dec. 10.—Russell B. Sugarmon, a young colored man of this city, enjoys the distinction of being the only colored man in the state, and perhaps in the South, em ployed as bookkeeper by a white con cern at a handsome salary. The W. T. Burt Cotton & Planting company, whose business amounts to more than $100,000 annually, has re tained the service of Mr. Sugarmon in this capacity for the past nine years. Mr. Sugarmon’s qualities and busi ness judgment have made many friends among both races. He has giv en such satisfaction to his employers that they have retained him over all other applicants. COLORED MEN TO HAVE GOLF LINKS Atlantic City, Dec. 3.—A golf course to be exclusively controlled by wealthy colored people of Philadel phia, New Jersey and New York is to be laid out just north of the boun dary line of Pleasantville, midway be tween the two golf courses supported by Atlantic City. B. F. Garrison of Pleasantville is supervising the creating of a nine hole course, and says that there is sufficient interest in the plans to as sure it of financial success. It will be located in Douglass City. A club house, with private baths and cafe, will be erected. COLORED GROCERS ORGANIZE. The Co-operative Grocers’ associa tion, an organization of the colored grocers of Nashville, Tenn., is one of the results of Booster Trade week, which was held in that city. One of the purposes of this association is to standardize prices. W. H. Dixon is president. Eugene Elmore, manager of the Lincoln theater in New York City, has donated $200 to be divided among four of the local colored charitable organizations of that city. Alfred H. Lockhart, who is said to be one of the wealthiest colored men n the Danish West Indies, has been visiting this country. He is the rep resentative of the Standard Oil com pany at Saint Thomas. McVEY DEFEATS LANGFORD. New York, Nov. 23.—Sam McVey of Oxnard, Cal., outfought Sam Lang ford of Boston here tonight in a ten round match. McVey was the aggres sor in eight of the ten rounds, Lang ford gaining only the fourth and sixth. The weights of the heavy weights were: McVey 212 pounds and Langford 196. Something About Government Ownership No. 2 Under government own- of the population, has 66 ership a good piece of per cent, of the world’s work can be done. It has telephones, and the cheap often been done, but est and best service in the never with regard to world, time or economy. 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