WEST INDIES ASK
SELF GOVERNMENT
Natives Want American Citizenship
on Transfer ho Islands to
United States.
St. Thomas, D. W. I.—At a mass
meeting held here recently the fol
lowing resolution was adopted and
cabled to the home government at
Copenhagen:
“The island does not desire to be
governed like Porto Rico, but wishes
to be permitted to manage its own
affairs under the federal government.
Aemrican citizenship to be accorded
immediately on the transfer, the port
to be free and natives to be given
preference in appointments to gov
ernment positions.”
A delegation probably will be sent
to Washington to support the stand
taken in this resolution.
KING SAM’S SHIP TO BE SOLD
The Liberia Will Be Auctioned to
Satisfy a Claim.
New York.—The steamship Liberia,
which took King Sam and his Colored
seekers for an African empire to the
west coast, where they lost their il
lusions, was sold at auction at Robins
Dry Dock, Brooklyn, on December 21
to satisfy a libel. The owners of the
steamship Zealandia, which towed the
Liberia back from Africa, claim $100,
000 for their work, and it is to satisfy
this claim that the ship was sold.
The Zealandia is owned by the
United States Mercantile Marine Cor
poration. High shipping rates have
made the Liberia of some value now\
FIRST COLORED GIRL PASSES
MASS. DENTAL EXAM.
Boston, Mass.—The report of the
f,ent dental examination is made
public by the board of dental exam
iners. There is something epochal
and noteworthy in the results of this
examination in the fact that one of
the successful candidates, Dr. Edna
C. C. Robinson, is not only a Colored
girl, but she is the first young lady
of our race who has qualified herself
and taken the test in the whole history
of this state. The face of a Colored
girl is so unusually strange at this
gathering, one of the examiners com
mented on it.
COLORED NEWSPAPER MEN
TO MEET AT NASHVILLE, TENN.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 23.—Another
annual convention of newspaper men
for 1917 is to be held in this city Wed
nesday, Thursday, Friday and Satur
day, February 7, 8, 9 and 10. The of
ficial call is just being reelased from
the corresponding secretary’s office
of this city, which comes out signed
by C. J. Perry of Philadelphia, Pa.,
as president, Joseph L. Jones of Cin
cinnati, Ohio, as chairman of the exec
utive committee, and Henry A. Boyd
of this city as corresponding secre
tary.
THREE MILLION
UNDER TWENTY
There are 3,000,000 negroes in the
United States under twenty years of
age. There are more Negroes in
America than Canadians in Canada.
j “QUADROON PERIL”
ientuckian Says Negro Births Must
Be Recorded.
Louisville, Ky.—Laxness in the
| registration of Negro births makes it
i probable that “our grandchildren and
great grandchildren will be marrying
persons having Negro blood in their
veins,” according to a statement of
W. L. Heizer, state registrar of vital
tatistics, made before a state meet
ing of city and county health officers
which closed here recently.
Mr. Heizer called it a real peril in
Kentucky and asserted the number of
quadroons and octoroons in other por
tions of the country as well who could
not be distinguished from white per
sons was considerable. He urged coin
■ulsory registration of vital statistics
for the whole nation under a card in
dex system supervised by the federal
government.—Associated Press.
NO DISCRIMINATION
IN HARVEY SYSTEM
St. Louis, Mo.—A complaint, made
by a Colored patron, of discrimination
in one of the Harvey Houses, brought
the following letter from Mr. Mana
ger, who has charge of the St. Louis
branch of the Harvey system at this
time. In replying to Howard’s letter,
Mr. Manger stated: “It has always
been my desire to give Colored peo
ple who patronize us, the same serv
ice for their money that we give any
body else. I will appreciate it if you
can find it convenient to call on me
in person, in ored that I may get a
little more information first hand.”
THE NEGROES SHOULD BE
EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED
Norfolk, Va.—At the meeting of the
Southern Congress which convened
here reecntly, Judge Francis D. Win
ston, of North Carolina, said: “The
complete industrial, intellectual and
social development of the southern
states can be secured only when the
Negro race becomes a part of the cit
izenship of our sister states, and that
we will encourage all movements tend
ing to an equitable distribution of our
Negro population among the other
states of the union.”
RECORD COTTON BALE
Eufaalu, Ala.—The Negro and his
cotton are being affected by the
world-wide war. A Colored farmer of
thi splace recently sold a 770-lb. bale
of cotton and the seed, and received
for the lot the record-breaking price
of $166,32. It was the largest bale
brought to market this year. The
lint sold at 16*4 cents per pound, mak
ing $127.05 for the bale, and the seeds
at the market price of $51.00 per ton,
yielded $39.27.
CLAIM EAST INDIAN NOT WHITE
Galveston, Texas.—When full cit
izenship was granted to Abdul Ganis
Mondul, native of Calcutta, by Judge
Clay Stone recently, exception to the
ruling was entered by M. H. Anthoni,
United States naturalization exam
iner. Mr. Anthoni said the case
would be appealed to the United
States Supreme Court in order to get
a final ruling on the question of what
persons are to be classed as “white”
in administering naturalization laws.
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