General Race News
TO START FUND FOR
INVALID CORRESPONDENT
Cincinnati, Ohio.—In order to secure
substantial financial support for Hor
ace D. Slatter, well known newspaper
correspondent, who is in Asheville,,
N. C., trying to regain his health, Dr.
I. Garland Penn, of Cincinnati, corre
sponding secretary of the Freedman
Aid Society, is fathering a movement
to get a number of men to pledge one
dollar a month during the winter
months.
Mr. Slatter was stricken w’ith tu
berculosis in June of last year while
his wife was suffering with the same
disease. Mrs. Slatter died last Oc
tober. He has spent the greater por
tion of this year in Asheville with 1
fairly satisfactory results, and be
sides what his friends send him from
time to time has been trying to sup
port himself by writing a series of
articles on “Men I Have Known,” for
the Baltimore Afro-American.
During the fourteen or fifteen years
he has been in active life. Mr. Slatter
has done a great amount of publicity
work for the race in Northern and
Southern newspapers and magazines
and has helped materially in creating
favorable sentiment for the race.
Those persons desiring to participate
in the movement may write either
Mr. Slatter, 28 Beech Hill street,
Asheville, N. C., or Dr. I. Garland
Penn, 220 W. Fourth street, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
INTEREST IN WASHINGTON
MEMORIAL FUND
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.—With the
coming of fall and the passing of hot
weather, the country is settling down
to hard work Schools are crowded to
capacity and business houses are look
ing forward to a year of prosperity.
This is election year and cotton is sell
ing at sixteen cents.
Loyal men and women of the race
are, as a consequence of these con
ditions, again turning their attention
to the Booker T. Washington Memor
ial Fund. Voluntary letters are be
ginning to come in pledging contri
butions and outlining arrangements
for mass meetings which are to be
held in various parts of the country
this fall.
FORM L.iW AND ORDER LEAGUE
Massillon, O.—Fearing a repetition
of the Lima episode here because of
the numerous arrests of Negroes car
rying weapons, 60 race men and wo
men have formed a Law and Order
League for the purpose of registering
strange Negroes and to help preserve
order in case of trouble.
A large number of the members of
this league own their own homes and
many are in business for themselves.
Among other things the league is
lending a helping hand to the needy
and also to see that Negroes have a
fair and impartial trial in the courts.
Joseph L. Beard is president of the
league.
JOHN WYATT, EIGHTH
REGIMENT, DROWNED
Austin, Texas.—John Wyatt, a ser
geant in Company A, Eighth (Col
ored) Illinois infantry, was drowmed
recently while swimming in the Col
orado River. The body was recov
ered.
RANSOME SCORES WILSON
Asbury Park, N. J.—Rev. Dr. Rev
erdy C. Ransome, editor of the A. M.
E. Review, in an address here at the
Educational Congress, of “Making a
program for the Race.” Among other
things said: “The Negro should have
an economic, educational, civic and
political program. Politically we are
in a bad way. The leaders of the
race are not in the confidence of
those who control the policies of the
great parties. But they have the ear
of the great parties and should speak
in no uncertain tones.
“President Wilson is out here at
Shadow Lawn. It is rightly named
Shadow Lawn for the solemn promises
made to us four years ago have gone
like a fleeting shadow until today, we
know there is no substance in them.
“Do not be confused or stampeded
as between these competitors who are
seeking your suffrage at the primar
ies. What we want is neither a free
smoke, or a free drink or a free din
ner, but the assurance of a larger
freedom.”
JIM CROW RULE AGAINST
HINDU LEADS TO SUIT
Memphis, Tenn.—Claiming that he
j is a white man, even if he is a native
of India, and has a dark skin, and
that he has a right to ride in the front
of street cars with other white per
sons, A. Mondul, a native of Calcutta,
brought suit in the circuit court Fri
day, Sept. 23, for $1,000 each against
Joseph Warren and the Memphis
Street railway.
In his declaration, filed by J. N. ;
Bearman, Mondul alleged that he was |
assaulted on the car by Warren on
the ground that he was a Negro, had
no right among the white passengers,
and that with the aid of the employes
of the street railway, he was thrown
ofl the car.
$2,000,000 LACE MILL TO
BE RUN BY NEGROES
—
New Decatur, Ala.—A plan by
w'hich 400,000 Colored people will sub
scribe $5 each to a $2,000,000 capital
or the operation of a lace factory is
being projected by Mrs. George A.
Nelson, said to be a wealthy English
oman, and a large property holder
n this section.
Mrs. Nelson's plans include the
jrlnging of expert lace makers from
Brussels, Belgium, who w’ill teach the
olored employees how to make lace.
The capital is to be subscribed by Col- |
ored folk and the factory is to be
operated with Colored labor.
Raw material in the shape of Ala
bama cotton is plentiful for the man
ufacture of the finished product.
COLORED MAN’S HEIR
GETS HUNDRED THOUSAND
—
Philadelphia, Pa.—The adopted
white son of James L. Hitchens, Col
ored, to whom an estate of about
$100,000 is left, is a football and bas
ketball player. He was a student of
the Maryland Agricultural College for
a year and of the Baltimore City Col
lege for three years. The youth’s
adopted name is James L. Hitchens,
i Jr., but his real name is James L.
Lindermann. His mother died when
he was four years old. His father 1
was an actor. Young Hitchens, now i
21 years old, is married.
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EMMETGSOLOMON
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR
COUNTY TREASURER
RESIDED IN THE COUNTY 48 YEARS. WAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER-COMPTROL
LER 1906-1909. AND CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY AND CITY
TREASURER 1910 TO DATE
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DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
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