General Race News
GIVES EMPLOYMENT TO
SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE
Durham, N. C.—The North Caro
lina Mutual and Provident Associa
ton, the strongest insurance company
in the world controlled by Negroes,
gives employment to over 700 per
sons.. This is a concrete illustration
of the good that men can do who are
disposed “to cause two blades of
grass to grow where but one grew be
fore.”
The men in charge of this great
corporation are John Merrick, C. C.
Spaulding and Dr. A. M. Moore—
all self-made men, who stand for the
best energy and business acumen of
the Negro race.
DOG FANCIER OFFERS
FASHIONABLE RESI
DENCE FOR SALE
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 15.—Be
cause of a law recently passed in
Burlingame, a suburb of this city,
Miss Alice Hagar, society leader and
dog fancier de luxe, has offered her
mansioi for sale. In making her
offer, through a newspaper adver
tisement, she agrees to sell for a spe
cially low price, to any “Chinese,
Japanese or Negro.” The law inter
feres with her kennel of blooded
Scotch terriers.
INTERSTATE LITERARY
SOCIETY TO MEET
Topeka, Kans., Dec. 15.—The an
nual meeting of the Interstate Liter
ary Society of Iowa, Kansas, Mis
souri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, will
convene here Dec. 27-29, at the Shi
loh Baptist Church. This will bring
quite a few Christmas visitors to our
city during the holidays. The fa
mous U. K. T. band will furnish music
for the visitors on their opening
night.
NINE HUNDRED MEMBERS
IN TWENTY DAYS
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 15.—Nearly
nine hundred new members are the re
sult of the twenty-day campaign of
the Colored Women’s Provisional
Branch of the Young Women’s Chris
tian Association. It is the plan to
continue until 1000 members have
been added to the association, which
it is hoped will be before the first
of the new year.
CHIEF SAM BACK AGAIN
New York, Dec. 15.—The dilapidat
ed steamer Liberia arrived here De
cember 5 in tow of the steamer Zee
landia from Ahamboe, in the miasma
tic rivers of the West coast of Af
rica. Thus she ingloriously ended a
remarkable cruise conceived by Chief
Sam, the Negro leader, two years ago,
to aid his co-peers in establishing a
new government on their ancestral
shores.
COLORED STEVEDORES TO
UNLOAD DEUTSCHLAND
Boston, Mass., Dec. 15.—The eighty
members of the race that were load
ing and unloading the big German
sub-sea merchantman have been or
dered to return to New Haven on the
fifth day of January. It is expected
that about that time the Deutchland
will make another trip.
BILL TO LET NEGROES VOTE
Penrose Measure Would Prevent Dis
franchisement of the
Negro.
Washington, Dec. 5.—Senator Per
rose, republican of Pennsylvania, to
day introduced measures which he
said were designed to prevent the dis
franchisement of the Negro in South
ern states. One of the bills is the old
“Force bill,” giving supervision of
elections to the federal authorities,
which caused a bitter fight and pro
longed filibuster in Congress twenty
six years ago. He also offered an
amendment to the corrupt practices
bill, now before Congress, which
would amplify the provisions of the
Force bill.
Senator Penrose’s measure provides
that all elections must be conducted
under federal supervisors, appointed
by the United States courts. No mili
tary force shall be used at any elec
tion, the bill says, “unless it be neces
sary to repel the armed enemies of
the United States or to keep the peace
at the polls.” Severe penalties are
provided for interference with elec
tions.
DRAWING COLOR LINE
VIOLATES STATE LAW
Chicago, 111., Dec. 15.—A jury of
twelve white men who understood the
meaning of their oath, has found Wil
liam Tooker, doorkeeper of Franklin
Theatre, guilty of violating the law
of the state of Illinois by refusing ad
mission to A. T. Donald and Miss
Jeanette McGhee, who held tickets
for the theatre. The employee claims
that the rules of the house restricted
Colored people to the gallery. Mr.
Donald and Miss McGhee quietly left
the theatre and brought suit in the
Municipal Court before Judge Trude.
The jury found for the plaintiffs.
LABORERS ORGANIZING
AT PANAMA
Panama, Dec. 6.—Negro work
ers of the Canal and Panama railroad
and unemployed Negroes have taken
steps under the leadership of two law
yers to form a permanent organiza
tion of workingmen to be affiliated
with a similar organization in the
City of Colon.
COLORED WOMEN
ATTEND CONVENTION
Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 15.—The
Every Woman Suffrage Club of St.
Paul, sent a delegation headed by Mrs.
W. T. Francis, president, to the 34th
annual convention of the Minnesota
State Suffrage Association held in
the Gold Room of the Radisson Hotel,
Minneapolis, on Monday and Tuesday,
December 4 and 5, aid received a warm
welcome.
SCREEN STAR IN BIG SHOW
Noble Johnson, America’s premier
Afro-American screen star is playing
second male lead to Ruth Stonehouse
in the great Universal 6-reel Red
Feather, released on December 4th.
Mr. Johnson’s other recent Universal
appearances are in "Who Pulled the
Trigger,” “The Lady From the Sea,”
playing opposite Claire McDowell,
and “The Caravan.” He also ap
peared in Griffith’s great “Intoler
ance.”
Dan Desdunes’ Orchestra, Webster
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