General Race News
METHODISTS AGAINST
DANCING AND CARDS
Theater Also Barred by Large Vote—
Oppose Divorce.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., June 10.—
Dancing, card playing and theatre go
ing are still under the ban of the
Methodist Episcopal church and mem
bers who indulge in these diversions
are liable to expulsion, under the
laws of the church.
The general conference rejected
Friday, May 26, by a vote of 434 to
360, a proposal offered by a minority
of the committee on the state of
church, which recommended that par
agraph 271, which specifically pro
nounces against these amusements
and provides a penalty for violation
of the rule, be removed.
Had it net been for the solid oppo
sition of the Colored delegations, the
ban might have been lifted. Nearly
every one of the Colored delegates,
however, and there are about 100 1i
the conference, voted against chang
ing the paragraph. The vote of other
conferences was nearly always evenly
divided, but in the case of New York,
Philadelphia, Newark and other con
ferences in the east the majority sup
ported Chancellor James R. Day, of
Syracuse University, who headed the
progressives who wanted a change.
The total abstinence by Methodists
church members from the use of to
bacco is urged in another report,
which states:
“We record our solemn judgment
that the habitual use of tobacco is a
practice out of harmony with the best
Christian life.”
More stringent regulations regard
ing the remarriage by Methodist min
isters of divorced persons are pro
vided in a report submitted by the
committee on the state of the church.
The church has never recognized any
cause for divorce, except adultery, and
has always forbidden remarriage <>■
any case where a divorced wife or
husband is living. By the proposed
change, a minister who performes
such a marriage is guilty of malad
ministration and is to be held answer
able.
FLORIDA JUDGE WILL ALLOW
WHITES TO TEACH BLACKS
St. Augustine, Fla., June 10.—Judge
Gibbs, of the circuit court, May 20
declared unconstitutional the Florida
law prohibiting white teachers from
teaching in Colored schools and Col
ored teachers from teaching in white
schools. He instructed the authorities
to release the bondsmen of several
sisters in charge of a convent school
who had been held on charges of vio
lating the law. Judge Gibbs ruled
that the state had no power over pri
vate schools and could not legally
prohibit a “superior race” from in
structing an “inferior race.”
REMEMBERED HIS EMPLOYEES
The last will of the late Morris
Lasker of Galveston gives bequests to
the following Colored citizens: Carl
Bryant, $1,000; Mrs. Mamie Green,
$500; Mrs. Julia Wooks, $100; Mrs.
E. M. Russell, $25; and Wm. Bowers,
125. All the above, except Mr. Bow
ers, who is a letter carrier, were em
ployed at some time at the Lasker
home.—Galveston (Tex.) Times.
WHITE SUFFRAGETTES ASK
COLORED WOMEN TO HELP
Columbus, O., June 10.—“Come and
stand by us in helping women to get
their rights,” appealed the Franklin
County Suffrage Association to the
Colored women of Columbus a few
weeks ago.
“Nothing doing on ‘votes for women’
until you promise to help the Colored
folks get something like equal social
privileges with white people,” was the
substance of I hr answer made yester
day in a petition filed with the Suff
rage Association meeting at its room
in East Broad street. And there the
issue stands.
“We liuve nothing to say against
equal suffrage,” said Mrs. Minnie B.
Mosby, 604 Mt. Vernon avenue, secre
tary of the Columbus branch of the
National Association for the Advance
' ment of Colored People, “but before
the Colored women come out in favor
of women suffrage we believe the
white women baking the movement,
should show' their willingness to help
wipe out the discrimination against
Colored people on the part of theatres,
hotels, restaurants and soda foun
tains.”
The suffragists tabled a petition
stating the Colored women’s position.
BUTLER, COLORED ATHLETE
WINS AT IOWA CITY
Dubuque, Iowa, June 3.—Sol Butler
was easily the star in the dual track !
meet between the Teachers’ College
and Dubuque College Saturday, May
20, winning five first places and one
second besides making a wonderful
sprint getting second place in the re- i
lay race in which the Teacer’s College
had two teams entered. Butler won
the hundred in ten and three-fifth;
the 120-yard high hurdles in 16 2-5;
the 220 low hurdles in 27 3-5, and
broad jumped tw’enty feet three inch
es. He also annexed the shot put get
ting a mark of 36 1-4 feet. He took
second place in the discus throw. Ben
Butler, his brother, surprised every
one when he won the high jump and
the qarter mile. The slow' time was
the result of rain, the track being a
pool of water in places.
WILL PLAY JOE SMITHS.
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Hunter Giants, a fast Colored ball
j team, will play the Joe Smith team of
! Council Bluffs Sunday at 16th avenue
and 6th street.
SILVER ANNIVERSARY OF
ORDINATION TO DIACONATE
Sunday is Whitsunday, one of the
great Church festivals. It is also the
Feast of St. Barnabas, the Apostle,
and marks the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of my ordination to the diaconate.
The services at the Church of St.
Philip the Deacon will be at the usual
hours: 7:30 a. m. ; 11:00 and 5 p. m.
I shall greatly appreciate it if all the
cummunicants of the church will make
a special effort to be present with me
at the early service and if posible
again at 11 o’clock. I shall esteem
it a great privilege to have as many
of my friends worship with us at these
services as can consistently do so. But
I do want all the members of the con
gregation present.— John Albert Wil
liams.
SOUTH SIDE.
The ladies of Allen Chapter A. M.
E. Church, will give a trolley car
party through Omaha to Florence and
Lake Manawa. This being the first
of the season, the ladies will spare
no pains in making this outing a
pleasant affair. The car will leave
24th and M streets Wednesday eve
ning, June 14th, at 8 o’clock. This
being “Flag Day,” everyone will have
an opportunity to attend.
Little Miss Luvetta Busch and Mas
ter John Thornton will graduate from
8th B to the High School. We con
gratulate these little folks on being
able to finish the grade school at such
an early age, and that we look for
greater things from them in the fu
ture.
On Sunday, June 11, the A. M. E.
Sunday School will have their annual
children’s day exercise. At 3 o’cIock
the smaller children will render a
program with special music. At 8
o’clock the larger pupils will ha?e
charge of the program. They, too,
will have special music along wdth
their literary exercises.
Mr. Jake Broomfield, who is still
quite sick, was moved from his home
to the St. Joseph’s hospital Wednesday
morning, June 7th.
The rally given by the ladies of the
A. M. E. Church for the ministers,
brought them $42, for which they
wish to thank members and friends.
STRIKERS BACK AT WORK.
Many Colored men who were
.hrowm out of work by the strike of
the building trades are now back at
work. Most of the big jobs are now
under way with their full force. It
has been estimated that abotu 400 Col
ored men were affected by the walk
out.
FAST COLORED TEAMS COMING
Manager Bradford, of the Brandeis
Stores, has booked the Kansas City
Giants June 17th and 18th. The Le
land Giants July 1, 2 and 4, and the
Union Giants July 29 and 30.
FIRST REGIMENTAL BAND IN
FLAG DAY PARADE.
The First Regimental Band K. of
P. has been engaged to march in the
Flag Day parade Wednesday,
June 14. Dan Desdunes, the con
ductor, has arranged a medley of pat
riotic airs especially for the occasion.
The Colored churches and lodges have
also been asked to participate.
See that your favorite gets trip.—
Adv.
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