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OF FINE FURNITURE
Southern Dealer Claims That Negroes
Are Responsible for Tremendous In
crease in Business.
WELL FURNISHED HOMES
SPECIAL PRIDE OF RACE
Are Easy Victims of Jewelry and Oth
er Sharpers—Statements by Shrewd
Business Man Which Ought to Make
Our People Think.
(By Associated Negro Press.)
RAND RAPIDS, MICH., July 23.
—“It is the Negro who has made
the furniture man of the south rich
from his business. The whites have
helped, but the tremendous business
we have enjoyed recently has come
in larger decree from the Colored
man.”
It was a furniture man from At
lanta, Ga., who was doing the talking,
and his talk was most interesting and
enlightening.
“I think I may say that the Negro
of the south has made more rapid
strides in recent years than the white
man has. The reason is manifest.
He had a longer distance to go and
he is covering that distance very rap
idly. He is taking advantage of the
educational system and he is getting
ahead in an economic way very rap
idly.
“You know it is characteristic of the
Negro that when he has money he
likes to spend it and when he does
spend it he usually wants something
mighty good for it. As a result you
may go into the homes of Negroes in
Atlanta and find the very' choicest fur
niture in them and usually a lot of
it, perhaps it is more than a white
man would consider good taste.
“It is very interesting to go into
some of these homes. I have been in
many of them and never cease to mar
vel at them. Many of the homes are
very small and so far as the house
itself is concerned, is not at all pre
tentious. I’ve been into homes of not
more than three rooms and found in
one a $90 range and a bed room suite
that cost $300 or $400. In another
room would be a mighty fine living
room suite along with a $500 piano
and a $200 Victrola. I have even been
in the homes of single men living in
one room and found it beautifully fur
nished with a fine Victrola. I asked
one old fellow why all the furniture,
since he was there only long enough
to sleep, and his reply was that he
sometimes had friends call and wanted
his home to look nice.
“The Negroes are making more
money than they ever did before.
Some of them own farms and raise
tremendous crops on them and any
kind of crop in the last few years has
been worth real money. This they are
putting into their homes very largely
and since the advent of prohibition the
money has gone into homes more than
ever.
“I’ll just give an example of the
trade we have with the Negroes.
Awhile back I was credit man for a
big concern doing a heavy installment
buisness. We did perhaps $35,000
worth in one year and from 75 to 80
per cent of the account we had were
with Negroes. Not a few of the"e,
like a few white men, did not pay rg
ularlv, but I’ll venture to say that
better than 95 per cent of them came
in very regularly and paid something
on their accounts. Sometimes they
could not meet what they had agreed
to pav weekly, for the Negro will
promise almost anything but they
come in with something and keep it
un until the furniture was paid for.
Now that is a pretty good record.
“The one thing the Negro has to
contend with more than anything else
in his gullibility. Some of your north
erners come down there with all sorts
of fake schemes and prey upon them.
A favorite trick is to come down with
a lot of fifty cent jewelry, mark it
$4.98, take one dollar down and the
rest in installments. Now, if they
never get any more than the initial
payment, they clean up 100 per cent
profit. After they have been there
awhile they will sell their accounts
to some jeweler make, a nice cleanup
and get away. This sort of thing is
the bane of the Negro’s life and keeps
him back, but in spite of it, they are
going ahead faster, I think, than the
whites and it is to them that we
owe fhe tremendous business we are
having now."
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DEMPSEY IS AFRAID
CANNOT HOLD TITLE
Refuses to Risk His Title to the World
Championship by Match M ith Willis
—Safety First—His Sparring Part
ners Before Willard Fiasco Were
Colored Boxers and Jack Knows
How Hard They Punched.
Toledo, 0„ July 23.—Jack Dempsey,
new heavyweight champion of the
I world, has announced that he will not
! make a match with a Negro. He,
therefore, has barred Harry Wills
from a fight for the big title. Demp
sey’s sparring partners at Toledo were
Bill Tate and Jamaica Kid, both Ne
groes but Jack hadn’t defeated Willard
at that time. Willard drew the color
line as soon as the title was handed
to him by Jack Johnson in Havana,
Cuba, so that he established a prece
dent for Dempsey. Corbett, before he
conquered John L. Sullivan, boxed
sixty-one rounds to a draw with Pe
ter Jackson, the greatest Negro heavy
] weight that ever came here from a
foreign shore. Corbett, Fitzsimmons
; and Jeffries, as champions, refused
I to risk the title in bouts with Colored
1 men, but Jeffries finally was forced to
i come out of retirement in a futile ef
fort to regain the championship from
Johnson at Reno, the latter having
won it from Tommy Bums in Aus
tralia.
ISSUE UNIQUE CITY DIRECTORY
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Memphis, Tenn., July 23.—Within
the next few weeks Memphis can boast
of a real first class Colored city di
rectory, the purpose of which is to
present in systematic hut concise form
the most important facts concerning
the Negro population of this city.
Directories have been gotten up
among the Negroes in Chicago, New
Orleans, Savannah, Richmond, Atlan
ta, Nashville and other cities, but the
Memphis Colored directory will con
tain several features. This directory
will contain the name and address of
every Colored business and profes
sional man and woman in Memphis;
recording churches, schools, philan
thropic, fraternal, social and other ac
! tivities among the Negro population.
It will also contain criminal and vital
statistics as they concern the Colored
people, as well as valuable educational
reports. The directoiy w-ill also con
tain the name and address of Colored
property holders.
There w-ill be a “Who’s Who Among
Negroes of Memphis” department,
with cuts and sketches of prominent
Negro citizens. There will also be
a good account of the part that the
Memphis Colored bovs played in the
| recent world war. There will be pic
| tures of the various boys who saw'
| service in France with statistics con
I ceming the draft.
Those who are responsible for this
! new feature in the commercial life
: here are endeavoring to present the
i facts as to the life of the Negro to
II make him realize what is expected and
required of him as a citizen; there
fore they are sparing no pains nor
expense in making this book appropri
! ate as a souvenir and handy for ref
! erence.
EDUCATION A SAFEGUARD,
SAYS PRINCIPAL OF
PINEY WOODS SCHOOL
(By Associated Negro Press.)
Des Moines, la., July 23.—“No Ne
gro with a high school or college edu
cation has ever been lynched in this
country or accused of the heinous
crimes which are cited as excuse for
lynchings,” said Laurence C. Jones,
a Negro graduate of the University
of Iowa and principal of Pinew Woods
school at Braxton, Miss., who spoke at
Grace Methodist church yesterday.
I
“The Negro’s education is neglected
in the south because he has no vote.
School officials know that the less
they do for the Negro the better they
will stand with the mass of their
white constituents.
“Recognition extended the Negroe
bv white people of the south during
the war against Germany has been
largely withdrawn since the war end
ed. The paper controlled by former
Senator Vardaman has attacked white
candidates for office who had attended
Negro gatherings from patriotic mo
tives.
“The Negro does not seek social
equality with the whites. That is a
bugbear of southern politicians. He
does want a fair chance economically
and in an educational way, and the
better white people of the south would
like him to have it. Rut the white
masses still hold that the Negro’s
highest duty is to get off the sidewalk
when he meets them.
“As a group of the American people
12,000,000 strong, and loyal to the
nation in its time of war, the Ne
groes desen’e to be fairly dealt with.
Mr. Jones said the Pinew Woods
school, which he started eight year
ago, has 1,334 acres of land ami
teaches a dozen or more trades to 300
Negroes who work half time.
Good health depends largely upon
good habits.
SCOTTISH RITE MASONS
IN NEW ENGLAND
_
Special to The Monitor.
New Haven, Conn., July 22.—Echoes!
are still being heard of the famous
38th annual session of the United Su
preme Council of the 33d Degree of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Freemasonary of the northern
jurisdiction of the United States, held
recently in this city, and which met
in New England for the first time in
history. The members are unanimous
in their opinion that the New Haven
consistory No. 7 in charge of the ar
rangements, surpassed all other
branches of the order in the hospitable;
entertainment extended. The session
was successful from every point of
view.
Upon their arrival the visitors were
conveyed to their stopping places in
limousine cars. Sunday evening di-1
vine worship was held at Dixwell
Avenue Congregational church, and
Rev. Edward F. Goins, 32d degree, M.
W. P. M., delivered the annual sermon.
The executive session sw'ere held in
Odd Fellows hall Monday and Tues
day, with 111, J. Francis Rickards,
presiding. His annual address was a
model of forensic art and contained
much sound advice for the good of the
order. The old-fashioned Connecticut
shore dinner Monday at light house
point in the Tabbard Inn wras a de
lightful affair, purely informal, with
choice sea food and its accessories in
luxurious abundance, followed by a
“smoker” and an impromptu program.
The truly social triumph of the sea
son was the grand banquet Tuesday
evening at Odd Fellows’ hall. His
honor, David E. Fitzgerald, mayor of
New Haven, was the principal speaker
and his strong and statesmanlike ut
terances will live long in the memory
of all who were fortunate enough to
hear them. He paid a glowing tribute
to the president of the United States.
Other speakers, responding to the tra
ditional toasts of the Scottish Rite
were III. J. Francis Rickards, III.
Sumner A. Fumiss, minister of state;
III. Richard E. Moore, III. William F.
Powell, S. P. William Porter Norson,
III. William H. Miller, III. Howard D.
Gould and S. I*. G. Grant Williams.
III. Geo. W. Crawford of New Haven,
acquitted himself with distinction as
master of ceremonies.
Mrs. Cora L. Owens, 2919 Erskine
street, is happy over the visit of her
brother, Mr. Lewis Ewing of Minneap
olis, Minn., and Patrolman W. H. Ew
ing of Chicago, who have been in the
city for the past five days. Much
of their time was spent in motoring
about, Omaha visiting points of inter
est.
For Monitor office call Doug. 3224.
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