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A RACE SEGREGATION BRIEF
Supreme Court Told Negro Develop
ment Is Not Curbed.
Washington, Feb. 16.—Race segre
gation ordinances of Southern cities
were defended in a brief presented to
the Supreme Court today by H. R.
Pollard, city attorney of Richmond,
Va., in a test case from Louisville,
Ky., affecting municipal laws of Rich
mond, Baltimore and other cities, to
be re-argued orally next month.
Photographs of Negro residences,
schools, churches and banks in Rich
mond were attached to the brief as
evidence that restriction upon inter
mingling of whites and Negroes does
not curb Negro development. As white
persons are prohibited from residing
in Negro residential sections, it was
contended that there is no unconstitu
tional discrimination in the ordi
| nances.
COURT RESTORES HIS
FULL MASONIC HONORS
Baltimore, Md.—In a sweeping de
cree signed by Judge Duffy recently,
Milton R. Lee is restored to all the
privileges of the Masonic fraternity.
Lee was suspended several years ago,
and since then has vainly sought read
mission to the order.
COLORED DAIRYMAN
WINS MILK PRIZE
Julian 0. Winston, a Colored dairy
man residing near Ottumwa, Iowa, ob
tained the highest test for his milk
at the recent milk test held in Des
Moines for the state of Iowa. Mr.
Winston moved from Virginia to Iowa
ten years ago. He bought 180 acres
of land and two years a#o entered the
dairy business. There was much op
position to him at first but the su
periority of his products brought him
to the front and he has now all the
business he can possibly manage.
GLOVER INTRODUCES __
CIVIL RIGHTS'BILL
Englewood, N. J.—A bill to broaden
and strengthen the New Jersey Civil
Rights’ law was introduced into the
Assembly at Trenton last Monday by
Assemblyman W. Irving Glover of
this town. This is in accordance with
the promise made by Mr. Glover in
his campaign, and he is using all his
influence to secure an early hearing
and favorable consideration for hiB
bill.
The provision of the Glover bill will
remove all doubt as to the right of
Colored people in regard to accommo
dation at public resorts or places of
amusement. The 1917 legislature is
strongly Republican and there ii
every reason to believe that the bill
will pass. All the Negro organiza
tions in the state both civic and po
itical representing 45,000 Negro vot
ers, are being urged to take up this
matter with their Senators and As
semblymen, requesting their support
for this measure.
CARD OF THANKS
I desire to express my heartfelt
thanks to friends for their kindness
during the illness and death of my
husband, Peyton Brooks. I want to
especially thank the Western Under
taking company for their considerate
ness and the manner in which they
looked after the funeral.
AMANDA BROOKS.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 19, 1917.
I wish to thank my many friends
for their kindness in the time of my
trouble and the loss of my beloved
husband. I also want to thank Mr.
and Mrs. Franklin and Class No. 7
for the beautiful flowers.
GEORGIA NELSON BROWN.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 21, 1917.
CHICAGO THREATENED
WITH SEGREGATION LAW
Chicago, Feb. 15.—Solution of the
race segregation problem, made acute
in recent months by the steady influx
of Southern Negroes, is the aim of ac
tion taken today by representatives of
the owners of 50,000 of the 100,000
better class apartments in Chicago.
Segregation statutes similar to the
ones in force in St. Louis will be in
voked.
“We believe the interests of Chi
cago demand that white'people shall
not encroach upon the Colored or the
Colored upon the white,” I. O. Ackley,
a member of the committee appointed
to perfect plans for immediate action,
said. “Therefore, we strongly urge
the segregation of the races. Action
taken recently in St. Louis has been
decreed constitutional by the Supreme
Court. It is perhaps the greatest piece
of racial legislation since the four
teenth amendment.”
COLORED RACES IN
THE WORLD’S WAR
The important part that the Colored
races are playing in the present
wcrld’s war is indicated by the follow
ing paragraphs from the Native Opin
ion of South Africa, published at
K inkwill iamstown:
“It is reported from Eshowe that
Solomon, son of Dinizulu, will be rein
stated as Chief of the Ustutu, and also
that there is a proposal to raise a
force of Zulus for oversea service.
“Sir James Carroll, the Maoristates
man, who is proceeding from England
to New Zealand, expects to spend a
few weeks in South Africa at the in
vitation of the Parliamentary dele
gates. He says that, the bearing and
utility of the Maoris and other Colored
troops at the front is the finest en
dorsement of the British and French
Colonial methods. He is most anxious
to study the South African Native ad- j
ministration.”
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
FIFTY YEARS OLD
To Celebrate Golden Anniversary
With a Reunion of Its Graduates.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 15.—Trus
tees of Howard University plan to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the founding of the institution with a
sociological conference, at which ad
dresses and reports will be made by
some of the most distinguished socio
logists, teachers and leaders of the
Colored race, and also with a reunion
on March 2 and 3 of the alumni, many
of whom will probably remain in
Washington for the inauguration on
March 5.
Advance figures from the official
program of the anniversary show that
the university has graduated 4,591
students since 1867, including 1,000
doctors, 844 teachers and bachelors,
771 lawyers, 423 ministers, 324 den
tists, 264 pharmacists, 703 from the
academy, and all other departments
362.
NEW YORK CENTRAL
WANTS NEGRO LABOR
Rochester, N. Y.—The Rev. L. B.
Rrown, who has been active in secur
ing employment for Negro labor in
Rochester and neighboring towns, is
in receipt of a communication from
the New York Central Railroad stating
that the road can use five hundred
Colored laborers for general track
work.
Those laborers will be placed to
work at different ponts on the Syra
cuse, Rochester and Buffalo divisions
to work on the tracks. The wages
will be 19 cents per hour. The bunk
horses for living purposes are .‘quip
ped with tiger steel bunks and stoves,
and are free. Free transportation
will be furnished from New York or
Chicago.
TEXAS SENATE PAYS TRIBUTE
Austin, Texas.—An unusual sight
was witnessed here when Texas State
Senators arose from their seats in the
church where they were attending the
funeral of E. S. Monroe, a Colored
man, and paid eloquent tribute to his
memory. In .addition, a committee of
three Senators had been appointed to
attend the services held at his home.
Mr. Monroe was 74 years old and
had been head porter of the State Sen
ate for thirty years. He died at his
home, 1001 East Eleventh street. He
is survived by the widow and one
daughter. He was a prominent mem
ber of Pride of Austin Lodge, Knights
of Pythias.
PELLAGRA VICTIMS
MOSTLY WHITE
The pellagra commission of the
Post-Graduate Hospital, New York,
has just issued a series of papers
dealing with the prevalence and se
verity of the disease in Spartanburg
county, South Carolina. The commis
sion found that the Colored people
are very seldom attacked by the dis
ease, but when attacked the mortality
is somewhat higher than that for the
whites, owing to “their greater pov
erty, poorer food and the less effec
tive care they receive.”
RANCHERS PAY $5,000 RANSOM
TO BANDITS FOR NEGRO
El Paso, Tex., Feb. 17.—A letter
was received here late today from
Hachita, N. M., by the local repre
sentative of E. K. Warren & Sons
saying a check for $5,000 had been
given to Ed (“Bunk”) Spencer, the
Negro who, with his Mexican wife, is
being held for ransom by Jose Ynez
Salazar at Ojitos, Chihuahua.
WANTS MONUMENT
TO COLORED SOLDIERS
St. Louis, Mo.—Representative Dyer
of Missouri, recently introduced a bill
in Congress to provide a commission
to secure plans and designs for a
monument to the Negro soldiers “who
fought in the wars of the country,"
and asks that $100,000 be appropriated
for that purpose.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
AFRAID OF THE BLACK RACES
Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels, in a recent magazine article,
says that the present European war
is nothing to the coming war between
the white and black races of the
world. The black races, he says, will
triumph. This is probably the reason
why he opposes Negroes in the army
and navy of the United States. He is
afraid that the Negro may learn to
fight too well.
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