General Race News
M’VEA AND JEANETTE WILL
MEET AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, La., April 27.—Sain
McVea and Joe Jeanette, two of the
best known Colored heavyweights in
the game for many years, will meet
in a New Orleans ring in the first oi
a series of elimination bouts for the
Colored championship of the world.
The contest will be staged by Domi
nick Tortorich at the New Louisiana
Auditorium, about the middle of May,
according to the announcement of Pro
moter Tortorich last Monday night,
and after it is finished, the winner
will be matched with some of the other
big Colored fighters, probably Harry
Wills. Then the situation will again
be narrowed down to a contest for the
winner of this bout and the “little
brown man from Boston,” Sam Lang
ford.
This is the program planned at pres
ent. The first match is already lined
up.
VARDAMAN AFRAID
OF COLORED SOLDIERS
Washington, May 5.—Senator Var
daman, in discussing in the Senate re
cently the National Guard section of
the army increase bill, sees danger to
the South in the authority that is
given the federal government. In dis
cussing this phase of the question,
he said in part:
“I do not know who is going to suc
ceed the present occupant of the White
House. I hope he may succeed him
self, but I would not hazard a pre
diction of what is going to happen.
If a man should be elected President
who is color blind on the race question
and whose olfactories have become so
benumbed that he could not distin
guish between a white man and a Ne
gro, and who is so politically antag
onistic to the South that he would be
willing to use the power conferred
upon him by Section 56 of this bill
for partisan political purposes, he
could order Negro regiments to mo
bilize for military training in every
congressional district of the state of
Mississippi.
TWO DELEGATES FROM
NEW JERSEY.
Atlantic City, N. J., May 5.—In the
Presidential primaries held April 25,
the surprise in the voting in the city
was the probable election of two Ne
groes, James A. Lightfoot, a lawyer,
and W. F. Cozart, a head waiter, to
the National Republican convention
as delegates from the Second district
over County Clerk Harry L. Knight
of Burlington County and Richard M.
Moore, a Bridgeton glass manufact
urer.
The heavy vote was due to the ef
forts of Mayor William Riddle in a
battle with City Commissioner Harry
Bacharach and his brother, Congress
man Isaac Bacharach. Out of twenty
five precincts in the city the Negroes
carried twenty-one. The other sec
tions of the district will likely show
their defeat.
Halifax, N. S., April 27.—“The
Birth of a Nation” has been barred
after a delegation of about forty citi
zens of both races waited on the pro
vincial government. Several showed
that the picture failed to portray his
tory as it should and showed the in
crease in prejudice wherever it went.
COLORED BOYS MAKE
ATTRACTIVE TOYS
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 27.—
Small Colored boys at the Chattanoo
ga Avenue School have become so
iroficient in the art of toy-making
hat keen interest is being shown in
heir work by persons who have seen
amples of it.
Many orders for doll furniture and
bric-a-brac have been filled for poi
sons out of the city, as well as in it,
it is said, and only lack of material
and proper tools prevent their doing
a big business in this line of work.
Toy making was taken up at the
beginning of this school year, there
being a teacher at the Chattanooga
Avenue school that was interested in
nanual training and willing to teach
.he art free. A limited amount of
ools was furnished by the depart
nent of education, and from this start
vhat probably will be the nucleus for
\r, industrial school for the Negro
•ace in Chattanooga has resulted. The
iced for manual training in the Coi
ned schools appears to be urgent and
-.ince such aptness in the use of the
lammer and the saw has been shown
)y these little boys of the fifth, sixth
ind seventh grades, that department
irobably will be added to the schools
.t an early date.
COMMENTS FROM RACE PRESS.
The Issue.
Of course, as American citizens,
concerned about the general welfare
of the country, we are interested in
preparedness and the tariff and our
foreign policy and all the other more
or less important issues which are be
ing considered and discussed in view
of the coming Presidential campaign.
Rut for us there one issue which
stands out above them all. We want
to know where the man for whom we
are asked to cast our votes stands on
the question of equal civil and politi
cal rights for the Negro. We can
overlook his views on pacificism or
preparedness, on free trade or high
tariff, on swallowing our words or
fighting Germany and Mexico com
bined, if he is right on the one issue.
This issue is forced upon us. We
regret that it is so, but it is, and
upon that issue we must stand. Let
Colored voters everywhere use every
means in their power to give this is
sue influence in the coming campaign.
—New York Age.
PLAY GROUNDS OPEN.
W'ilmington, N. C., April 27.—The
committee on recreation and amuse
ment of the Social Service and Civic
Improvement league is securing a
number of playgrounds for the Col
ored children. They have purchased a
coaster-slide, ocean-wave, merry-go
round and other amusements for the
children.
COLORED BABY TAKES PRIZE
At a recent baby show at Tecum
seh, Neb., the infant of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Paires, the only Colored fam
ily in the place, scored six points
higher than any other baby exhibited.
Dr. Davies said that the Paires baby
was an almost perfect specimen of
babyhood physically and one of the
finest types he had ever seen.
IMPROVISED BURIAL SERVICE
ON BORDER TOLD BY BINGHAM
Colonel Gonzales S. Bingham, in
charge of the local army quartermas
ter’s depot, has received the follow
ing description of the burial of one
of the Villa raiders who was shot
and killed at Columbus, N. M.
A platoon of American Colored
troops had been detailed to inter the
dead Mexican. A grave has been pre
pared, the body placed in it and the
soldiers were about to cover the
corpse with dirt when the non-com
missioned officer in charge sugested
that a brief service might be appro
priate over the remains of the de
ceased bandit.
Cap in hand, an ebony-hued trooper
stepped forth and solemnly uttered
the following words:
“Earth to earth and dust to dust,
“If Carranza won’t shoot you,
“The United States must!”
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Suit Values to $30.00 now $12.50
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Coats on Sale at $7.50
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