SNYDER FREED BY JURY
ON LYNCHING CHARGE
First Man to Be Tried for Lynching
Will in m Brown is Acquitted by Ve
niremen After a Deliberation of
Nearly Five Hours — Must Now
Stand Trial on Charge of Rioting.
RALPH Snyder, held for murder on
the charge of lynching William
Brown on the night of September 28
wag found not guilty by a jury In
Judge Redick’s court last Thursday, j
The jury was out for nearly five hours.
Several witnesses testified that Snyder |
mounted the burned police patrol near
the court house and said: ‘‘We have
showed this nigger what a northern I
mob can do;” and made similar j
speeches at other points. He is said j
to have warned the mob not to carry
out their threat to go north with
Brown’s body, because there were
armed but to wait until the next night
and then go out and clean up.
Snyder is the first man to be tried
for the actual lynching of Brown.
“Froggie” Howard, alleged to be
with Snyder, will be soon tried on a
similar charge. He stoutly denied his
guilt but admitted that he was in the
crowd around the court house, but
took no actual part in the lynching.
He admitted that he made speeches
admonishing the crowd not to go to
Twenty-fourth and Lake streets.
Attorney Shotwell prosecuted the
case with vigor, but no witnesses testi
fied that they saw Snyder lay hands j
upon Brown or the rope.
Although acquitted of the charge of
lynching Snyder is still held to answer
to the charge of rioting.
CALIFORNIA GIRL LEADS
( LASS OF 105 STUDENTS IN
EDUCATIONAL ATTAIN ME NT
Thereby Arousing Jealousy of Class
mates Prior to Graduation—Defend
ed by School Head.
Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 18.—A young
colored woman who, like Abou Ben
Adhem, "led all the rest,” is the storm
center around which the board of
trustees, the teachers and the pupils
of Calexico, Imperial county, high
school, are revolving.
The colored pupil ranks highest in
educational attainments among the 10S
students and the white girls scholars
have refused absolutely to sit on the
same platform with her at the coming
graduation exercises.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Will C. Wood has received
a letter from the board of trustees of
the school in which it is stated that
these same white students have sat
with the colored student for four
years without objection. The opinion
is expressed that the whole affair re
solves itself into a matter of jealousy
at the progress of the colored pupil.
Separate Schools
The El Centro schools are cited as
having some bearing on the matter
as in that Imperial county city sep
arate grammar schools have been
established for the white and the col
ored races.
The high school problem as regards
colored students never reaches El
Centro, it is stated in the letter, as it
is the plan to “discharge” colored stu
dents in that particular high school.
The intimation is made that the
problem has been imported to Califor
nia by cotton growers from the south
ern states who will not allow their
children to attend the same schools
as Negroes.
Job H. Woo.i Jr., deputy superin
tendent of public instruction, has sent
the following reply to the board of
trustees:
“We have your letter relative to
graduation of pupils from your high
school. Permit me to state in reply,
that the state of California taxes all
peopie alike, without reference to j
color or 'previous conditions of servi
tude,’ for the purpose of maintaining
its public schools. And at this time
we have nothing on the statute books
that separates, in any way, the colored
from the white children.
“The public schools are maintained
for the purpose of educating the masB
of humanity and making them able to
meet their obligations as American
citizens. The colored people of that
community are taxed where they have
property or they pay their rent for
homes and this rent is used to pay
taxes, just the same as everyone else
does, and they are guaranteed their
rights under the constitution and
under the lawB of this state. If this
colored girl has done her work as the
law provides, she Is entitled to her
diploma and her recommendation for
her entrance into college or normal
school and the courts will compel your
school to issue this diploma.
“I am glad to see that the spirit of
your board Is to give the colored girl
her chance. If these white girls re
fuse to graduate with the girl with
whom they have attended school
through all of these years, they should
go back Into the public schools and
have a real training for American citi
zenship. They must mix In the pub
lic for the future and they must meet
these people, be they colored or white.
“Of course, your board may arrange
to pass out these diplomas to all the j
children who are entitled to them and
have no graduating exercises if they
want. But, if you have graduating
exercises, this girl must be recognized
and be on the platform with the bal
ance of the children and receive her
diploma.
“JOB H. WOOD, JR.,
“Deputy Superintendent of Public
Instruction.”
BUSINESS LEAGUE OPENS
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
Local Organization* to be l’ut on
Sound Footing — Colored Bankers
Co-operating With Business League
Officials.
Washington, D. C.—The decision
reached by the National Negro Busi
ness League at its meeting held in St.
Louis. Mo., in August to establish at
Washington national headquarters, is
being carried into effect. Arrange
ments have been perfected by the sec
retary of the league, Mr. Emmett J.
Scott, whereby a portion of the Y. M.
C. A. offices formerly occupied by Dr.
J. E. Moorland and hiB staff of assist
ants during the war, shall be taken
over and maintained hereafter as Na
tional Negro Business League head
quarters. This arrangement is admir
able as the Y. M. C. A. building is the
center of Negro life and activity in
Washington. The influences that count
for most in the life of the colored peo
ple in Washington more or less ra
diate from the Y. M. C. A. building.
The program to revive local Negro
Business Leagues will be put under
way at once and will be carried for
ward as earnestly as possible. The
first movement in that direction has
been to reorganize the Washington
Negro Business League on the basis
of $5.00 joining fee per member with
dues of $10.00 per year payable quar
terly with a hope that this plan will
be adopted by Local Negro Business
Leagues throughout the country. Forty
persons have already come into the
Washington League on these terms.
Mr. T. J. Calloway, an experienced
business man, has taken the leader
ship in cooperation with the secretary
of the national league in reorganizing
the Washington branch, and will have
charge of a campaign throughout the
country to put local Negro business
leagues on a sound footing. Asso
ciated with them will be a live-wire
office manager deeply interested in
business league work, who will repre
sent the officers of the national Ne
gro business at headquarters and keep
the correspondence of the league
flowing to the remotest corners of the
United States. Back of all of these
efforts will be the influence and coun
sel of Dr. R R. Moton, president; Dr.
Robert E. Jones, chairman of the ex
ecutive committee, and the whole offi
cial staff of the National Negro Busi
ness League. A group of colored bank
ers headed by Mr. E. C. Brown, of
Brown & Stevens, bankers. Philadel
phia. has agreed to co-operate with the
national organization in putting this
extensive business league program
through.
EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY
SCHOOLS IN SOUTH CARO
LINA REACH 2,000 CHILDREN
(By Associated Negro Press.)
ADELPHIA, PA., Dec. 15.—
■— plea for the Negro of the south
was made by Archdeacon E. L. Bas
kerville of South Carolina, in an ad
dress at the meeting of the colored
ccmmittee of the Women’s Auxiliary
of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Speaking of the work of the church
in the state, he said:
“In our missionary schools we arc
touching the lives of nearly 2,000
children and the teaching in these
schools has a telling effect on the lives
of the children and their parents.
Communities are being transformed
by the influence of our missions and
schools. The schools are not run in
opposition to the public schools, hut
are doing a work which the latter are
not able at present to do. It is plain
ly the duty of the church to assume i
the responsibility to give the Negro
what the state is unable to give.’’
The speaker declared that the Ne
gro had always shown himself a law- j
abiding citizen when left to himself ]
and that his merits should be recog-1
nized. “There is no more loyal citi
zen than the Negro,” he said, “and it
is important that these black people j
who know no other country than
America should be educated in hand,,
heart and head to take the place of
the people who are making such dis
turbances in our land today. We have
no I. W. W. troubles in the south be
cause the Negro is law-abiding. The
south would be paralyzed without Ne
gro labor, and let me say right here
that the Negro never yet has started
a riot. In all the riots in which the
Negroes were involved they only
showed resistance to protect them
selves.”
Archdeacon Baskerville regretted
that there was so little public sym
pathy for the Negro. The churches
and the country poured money out on
men of other races, he said, but for
got the black man in his own coun
try. “If the people of the United
States,” he said, "turned as much
money loose on the Negro as they do
on the Japanese, we would have splen
did missionary results, not only in
the south, but all over the country.
AFRICAN PRINCE AT
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Boston, Dec. 18.—Stephen Balfour
Mfoafo, a prince of an African royal
family, is represented among the stu
dent bod yat the college of liberal arts
of Boston university. The prince's
father is a farmer at Lartch, West
Africa, on the Gold coast, and is en
gaged in raising cocoa.
“Most young men from the Gold
coast of Africa go to England for
higher education,” Mr. Mfaofo said.
“The schools at home are under the
English and German system. I heard
so much about America at home, so
we came over here instead of going to
England.”
Mr. Mfaofo has been in America five
years, doing his college “prep" work
and completing his plebe year of col
lege at Wilberforce, O. He will re
main this year at the college of lib
eral arts of Boston university, where
he is registered as a sophomore. Next
year he will go to Boston University
School of Medicine. Upon completing
his medical course in 1924 Mr. Mfoafo
plans to return to Gold Coast and
practice medicine among his native
people.
Two of his fellow countrymen are
students at Harvard university.
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ST. LOl IS TO BACK
COLORED CONGRESSMAN
(By Associated Negro Press.)
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 16.—At a sec-1
ond meeting of the “Citizens’ Confer
ence” held in this city, it was de
termined to run a colored man for
congress in the Twelfth district in op
position to the present Congressman
L. C. Dyer. There are more than 15,
000 colored voters in the district, and
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