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% VISIT THE LITTLE HOMESTEAD CAFE Good llornc ( Miking. Baths. 19)2 Cuming St. Washington & Givens, Props. The Jones Poro Culture College Positively Grows the Hair Try our scientific method of treat Ing the scalp. We positively grow hair or money refunded. Electric massage for scalp and face. System taught. Sterilized equipment. Steam heated booths. All work private. MRS. ANNA EVANS JONES 1616 North 24th St. Webster 5460 Harney 6100 TEXAS WHEN IN. 1 TEMPLE, TEXAS * STOP WITH Mrs. J. S. Dawson 218 South 4th Street Who gains pleasure in making you comfortable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Rates reasonable. Write or wire for accommoda tion. Events and Persons Mrs. M. A. Walker has just return ed from Dermott, Ark., where she w’as called to the bedside of a sick sister. Miss Gladys Brown left Tuesday morning for Chicago, III., to visit her aunt, Mrs. Austin Serreant. Mrs. N. Irving and her daughter, Fay, will leave Saturday night to spend a few weeks with friends in St. Joseph, Mo. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board, 1516 North 16th St. Tel. Web. 4983. Mrs. Ruth Wallace will give a cook ing demonstration under the aus pices of the board of public welfare Friday, August 9, at 2 o’clock at the Grove M. E. church. Her specialty will be substitutes. All are cordially invited to attend. Mr. Ed Patton of 2610 Patrick ave nue, is spending his vacation in Chi cago, III., visiting relatives. Mrs. W. H. Martin of 2610 Patrick avenue will leave for a visit with her mother in Syracuse, Kas. Mrs. Alfred Jones, accompanied by her children, Donald and Florence, spent Saturday as the guest of Mrs. Robert Sanford at Carroll, la. Taxi. Call J. I). Lewis. Prices $2 lo $3.00 an hour. Stand Web. 3199. Residence, Web. 949.—Adv. Mr. Bert Nichols of Lincoln was an j Omaha visitor last Thursday, j Mm. G. Mack is expecting her ! daughter, Mrs. G. A. Wheeler, from ! Kansas City, Mo., who will stay with j her while her husband is doing his bit in France. Mr. W. Allen of Kansas City. Mo., spent several day's in our city ;ast week in the ii.rerests of the World Wonder Oil and Gas Company of Kan sas City, which owns two valuable leases in Butler county, Kansas, the “gusher” county of Kansas. Furnished Rooms—Strictly mod i ern. With or w ithout hoard. 1516 North 16th. Tel. Webster 4983. | Mrs. M. L. Hamilton of Deadend, |S. D., will be the guest of Mrs, A. | Bowler for a week. Miss Cora Price en route home from a western trip, stopped over in Oma ha for a few days as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rhoades. St. Philip’s Episcopal church, Twen ty-first, near Paul. Sunday services: 8:30, 10 and 11 a. m.. and 8 p. m.; i daily, 8:30 a. m.—Adv. Mrs. Leonard Owen, 2919 Eiskim J street, served a four-course break | fast Thursday, July 24, in honor of Miss Allie Divers of Des Moines, la., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. (’has. Brutcher, 2807 Douglas street, and Mr. and Mrs. Jordan of Little Rock, Ark., sister of Mrs. Louis Shell man, 2320 North Twenty-sixth street. Among the guests of honor were Mr.-. Hattie Gibson of 2733 Lake street. W. H. (Bob) Robinson has been appointed local agent for the World Wonder Oil and Gas Company of Kansas City, Mo. Miss Lena Thurston, who under went an operation three weeks ago at University Hospital, is slowly im proving. Madame Jacobs, of 1910 North 27th St., has been called to Chicago re cently by the sudden death of hei I mother. N. W, C. A. NOTES. All members of the N. W. C. A. are requested to be at the monthly meeting on August 8. The advisory board of the N. W. C. A. met Monday the 29th at the residence of Mr. Alphonso Wilson to to form plans in regard to the home. Donations that have been given to the home since May: Mr. M. F. Sin gleton, $10; Dr. J. H. Hutton, $5; Mrs. George Ward, apples, carrots and one glass of jelly; Mrs. W. W. Peebles, one can of cherries; Mrs. J. W. Broatch, two glasses of jelly; Mr. Charlie Reed donated his services. Ladies Wanted! To Learn Chiropody. A good Chiropodist in every nvd | ern Hairdressing Parlor wil, add | greatly to your business and give I comfort to your patrons. For terms address MILS. STKW MCI. Chiropodist and Food Specialist, I f>23 W. Broadway. Council Bluffs Tell Black 3913. i, fob ;l; I Good Shoe Repairing f \ TRY l H LAZARUS, 2019 Cuming St $ *x~xkk**>*x**X">*x**x**x#*x**x**x~x F. WILBERC ‘BAKERY Across from Alhambra Theatre The Best le None Too Good for Our Customers. Telephone Webster 673 | t t T I mint T T----— Appreciative Audience j^reets Miss Ovington First Member Tells of the Organiza tion and Achievements of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement ot Colored People. OMAHA BRANCH IS ORGAMZE1 Starts Out V'goroush With ? Mem bership of Fifty-two, Which It i Hoped Will Be 1 "creased to Five Hundred Within a Year. I AST Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock -4 Miss Mary I.Vhite Ovipgtcn of New York, vice president and in real ity the founder of the National As sociation for the Advancement ot Col ored People, delivered an instructive address on “The Aims and Achieve ments of the Association,” to ;• com paratively small, but highly apprecia tive and responsive audience, in Grove Methodist Episcopal church. As a re sult a local branch was organized with fifty-two members. The Rev John Albert Williams was elected president; Mrs. James G. Jewell, sec retary, and Mr. Alphonso Wilson, treasurer. The election of other of ficers was deferred until some sub sequent meeting. The next meeting will be held Sun day afternoon at 4 o’clock in Grov< M. E. church, to which the public is most cordially invited. Miss Ovington told how slit became interested in improving conditions among the Colored people in New York City, for it was out of this .oral work that the national association ■ really grew, it was while she was working in a white social settlement in New York that she had brought to her attention the fact that the pool housing conditions and other prob lems confronting the white people of New York were more acute among the Colored people. She had forced upon her attention gross injustices and discriminations against the Col ored people which she had no idea ex isted in New York. She then turnrd to the study of and the working out of this northern “race problem” by social settlement work among the Colored people, in 11)08 came the Springfield riots, and several news paper articles dealing with the shock ing scenes there enacted in the home of Abraham Lincoln. Among these articles was one by William English Walling in the Independent, entitled “Race War in the North," in which after describing the atrocities com mitted against the Colored people. Mi. Walling declared: “Either the spirit of the abolition ists, Lincoln anil Lovejoy, must be revived and we must come to treat the Negro on a plane of absolute po litical and social equality or Varda nian and Tillman will soon have trans ferred the race w ar to the north. Yet who realizes the seriousness of the situation, and what large and pow erful body of citizens is ready to cook to their aid?” Miss Ovington’s four years’ study of conditions not only in the north, but also in the south, convinced her that the spirit of the abolitionists must b< revived. She wrote Mr. Walling that she was one willing to join with him in trying to revive this spirit. The outcome of this correspondence wai a call signed by the foremost men and women of the nation for a confer ence, which resulted in the organiza tion on Lincoln's birthday, 1905), ot the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People which has achieved much for improving con ditions. Continuing Miss Ovington said in part: This association made up of Col ored and white members, has its headquarters at 70 Fifth avenue, New York. Its president is the eminent Boston lawyer, Moorfield Storey, for mer president of the American Llai association, the chairman of the board of directors, Major J. E. Spingarn. attached to the general staff of tile United States army at Washington, its present secretary is Mr. John I! Shillady. Its former secretary is Captain Roy Nash, some where in France leading the only artillery manned by Colored men in the world It has a paid up membership of 38, 000. The object of the Association is: to secure to the Negro in the United States his full civil and political rights. It believes that in a democ racy there is no place for a subject people; and it has striven during | the nine years of its existence to se- | cure for Colored people their full status as citizens. In this work it i has the full support of the law since all racial discrimination in the United States is by its eonstittuion, illegal. It has two statutes written into the law of the land that it can turn to and as it were present to you as its greatest contribution ■ during its nine years of life: The two decisions of the supreme court, one declaring the Grandfather Clause unconstitutional, the other denying the right to a mu> nicipality to segregate Negroes. Our president, Mr. Moorfield Storey, filed briefs in both of these cases and won them for you and for me; for an in justice to the Negro is a sin to the white man, and each is helped when it is removed. Another thing we have done was the securing of the officers training camp at Des Moines. Major Spin garn, our chairman, went to (Matts, burg to our first training camp. There he endeavored to secure the admit tance of Negroes, but without success. He became convinced that a separate, camp was necessary and by his exer tions, backed by our Association, the administration accepted the Negro as an officer. Now we have over r. thousand holding commissions. So little do the people of the country appreciate the splendid caliber of young Negro manhood that it was necessary to make a fight to secure their recognition for positions, not only in the ranks, but in commands. We are battling against lynching and mob violence, and if there is an editor of importance in this country who does not know about the shock ing climes that are committed weekly against the black man, it is his fault, not ours. We have sent out hundreds of thousands of copies of our investi gations into the Tennessee lynchings, the Texas lynchings, the Louisians, lynchings, the East St. laruis riots and many others. We believe that tin people of this country will not toler ate this mob violence, but will de mand punishment of the offenders if they are only familiar with the facts. We favor legislation making lynching a federal offense. Colored and white soldiers today across the seas are fighting for lib erty in Europe. We have helped to put them there, in such places as they can well fill, not laborers but soldiers. And while they are fighting for liberty abroad we are fighting for liberty at home, liberty for them anil their people. We mean to have a good record for them when they return. This is a time of thanksgiving. A' month ago we wrote to all our branches urging them to write in turn to the president of the United States respectfully urging him to say some word against lynching in his Fourth of July address. When that address was made we looked in vain for a rebuke to the lawless element in the land. We were disappointed, but in that we were foolish. It was not that the president did not intend to speak on the matter, it was that he desired to make it a separate piece of busi ness, to address a message on this subject of mob violence to his fel low citizens. Of course, you have all read that message. We have a master in the ait of noble, forceful speech at the White House, but never have we had a mon magnificent utterance than that appearing in the press on July 26, asking the governors and officers of every community to make an end of the disgraceful evil of lynching, anti upon the people of the country to stand out actively against it. From today on, eevry lyncher in the presi dent's tremendous words, “adopts tlu> standards of the enemies of the coun ti ies whom he affects to despise.” 'I here were twelve prayers, were there not, and only one thanksgiving. Let it not be the case in this event, hut let us every one today person ally send our message of gratitude to the man whom the country has chosen to guide it through this diffi cult time, expressing to him our ap predation of his denunciation of the spirit of mob law. Having brought to you the simple story of what this organization has done and is striving to do to improve conditions in this country for all of u for tolerated injustice to any class of our citizens works injury to us all, and as this is a work in which Col ored people and white people who be lieve in the triumph of right and are willing to strive for its accomplish ment must sympathetically join, i hope that you will see your way clear to organize and join in this work. DOUGLAS REPUBLICAN LEAGUE RE-EL KCTS OU FICERS Sends Resolution o' Thanks to Presi dent Wilson for His Anti-Lynching Message. The Douglas Republican League met Tuesday night in St. Philip’s Guild rooms, with M. F. Singleton presiding, re-elected officers and transacted other important business. The only changes made in the offi cers were the election of W. E. Alex ander, as second vice president in the place of Dr. J. H. Hutten, resigned; and J. D. Crum as third vice presi dent in the place of the Rev. W. T. Osborne, who has removed from the city. Vacancies were also filled on the several stalling committees. Sev eral new members joined the organiza tion. A resolution of thanks was sent by the league to President Wilson for his anti-lynching message. It was decided to hold meetings weekly un til further notice, the next meeting to be in the same place next Tuesday night, at which time a permanent place of meeting will be decided upon. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. W. Harvell. Webster 4760. Store that Apprec/ates Vour Patronage j &OSts. Netor. fir c/us/re tact/es Outfitters ^wmmmmiiMl J. P. PALMER Republican Candidate For County Attorney Every man, regardless of his standing or condition, must have a square deal; and the laws shall be thoroughly en forced, without persecution of anyone. ■a:::::: a iut a a naan a a a a aia a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a >: a a a. i CHARLES UNITT I j: § g Candidate for Republican Nmination for County Commissioner a Fifth Commissioner District Solicits Your Vote Resident of the District for 37 Years. lit ‘ I promise if elected an honest, efficient, economical administra- S! j! tion of the affairs of the county. I favor the building of good sub u stantial roads and bridges, and keeping them in good repair. X~X<*-X"X"X’,X"X"X~X**X"XX”X~X~X~X~X*>X“X"X"X''XX~X~X~X~X' | A. F. PEOPLES ! .j. Painting, Paperhanging and Decorating. ❖ £ Estimates Furnished Free. All Work Guaranteed. 1K27 Erskine Street. 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