The Monitor • —
A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS
%!f THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
12.00 a Year. ScaCopy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1923 Whole Number 403 VOL. VIII—No. 39
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Call Is Issued for United Action
NEGRO AMERICANS
TAKE STEPS FOR
URITED MOVEMENT
Mix Lead ng Civil Rights Bodies, Real
izing Need of I'nitcd Front, Issue
an I li tit lit ion to All Race
Organizations.
KEELY MILLER CO-OPERATES
Bean Among Signers of tile Call and
on Committee Charged With
Work of Britigfng Race
Together.
New York, March 30.— (Crusader
Service.)—In eompelte unanimity in
the opinion, based upon actual experi
ence in the field, that enmity toward
Americans of African descent is on
the increase rather than otherwise,
the Conference of Civil Rights organ
izations held in this city on March
23 and 24 has issued a call for an
all-Race conference to be held some
time before April 1, 11)24.
A detailed call specifying time and
place, agenda and representation will
be issued later by the Committee of
Arrangements which is for the pres
ent composed of Dean Miller, Win.
Monroe Trotter, James L. Neil, Jas.
Weldon Johnson, Roebrt W. Ilagnall,
[>r. Li. N. K. Campbell, Rev. J. Jer
nigan, Richard B. Moore, Otto K. Hus
iwoud, with I»r. Shaw and Mr. Briggs
as ex-officio members in their capaci
ty of president and secretary, respec
tively, of the conference which, be
fore its adjournment, voted to go into
permanent being and elected another
permanent officer, Mr. J;itti<« Weldon
Johnson, ns treasurer.
It Is proposed to have representa
tion at the all-Race conference from
the following phases of Negro life,
and will be apportioned by the cotn
mitee of arrangements on the basis
of an ispial number of delegates from |
each section: Religious organizations, j
fraternal organizations, civil rights!
organizations, social organizations,
educational organizations, organized
press, labor organizations, business
organizations and professional organ
izations.
The task or working out an agwuua,
basis of representation anti preparing
a detailed call will naturally take
some time, and before the Job is com
pleted many expert* on the various
subjects to be dealt with will have
to be co-optated to the present com
mittee on arrangements. In the
meantime, however, the six bodies
composing the conference and issu
ing the call, express the hope that
the Negro press will give this rail the
widest circulation and that all Negro
organizations and bodies will begin J
at. onee to move In the direction of
the all-Race conference. It is the
hope of the conference that parlia
mentary rules and the regular red
tape will be susi>endod in this case
and that immediate action will be
taken on a question so vital and im
poriant to the well-being of the Ne
gro masses as the calling of this all
Itace conference with the view of
realizing a solid front against the
ever Increasing onslaughts of the
enemy. The call follows:
The Call.
“The world today has come to a
critical period of its existence, our
Race likewise has reached a crucial
situation. The promises of ameliora
tion and of full citizenship so easily
made during the critical period of the
flrrat World War have failed of ful
fillment. In this time of readjust
ment there Is growing a very menac
ing spirit or animosity against the
Race ami a determination to thrust
the Negro down into the most servile
and degrading status and to main
tain him there forever.
“Now while world readjustment Is
in progress and when every other op
pressed group is exerting itself to the
utmost to gain its rights and liberties,
the Negro Race must bestir itself,
must concentrate Its best thought and
energy to withstand the terrible on
BlaughtsmadeagaliiHt it and scrcure Its
due and rightful status: Kqual man
hood rights and opportunities in ev
ery department of life. The Race
must he stimulated to utilize all avail
able opportunities for constrcetive en
deavor ami must be brought into har
monious working relationships with
the white race.
“The need is urgent, nay. Impera
tive, then, for the assembling of a
national all-Race conference to con
sider the present position of the Race,
to ferret out and unmask the hostile
forces arrayed against it, to formulate
MERCHANTS’ DRUG STORE
Harvey J. Wolf and H. K. Hult
tnan have opened the Merchants Drug
Store at the northeast corner of 24th
arid Cuming. The gentlemen are ex
perienced in the drug business and
will make prescription work their
specialty. See their ad in this issue
and drop in and get acquainted.
SHOW UNIQUE REEL
Friedman Bros., 1510 No. 24th, are
showing a twelve hundred foot reel at
the Franklin theatre this week de
picting the various stages in the man
ufacture of Hhoes, showing each step
from the time a “critter” is born to
the turning out of the finest shoes. It
is a dandy educational feature and
will no doubt Ire witnessed by many
of our readers.
MEXICAN POLICE
STOPPED WOULD-BE
LYNCHERS
Americans In Lower California Are
Baffled In An Attempt To Play
The Game of SavSge
Torture
PROTECT THEIR PRISONER
Pacific News Bureau.
Tia Juana, Lower California, Mex.,
March 30.—Chester Carlton, colored,
confined in the local jail charged with
murder, the outcome of a pistol duel
a few weeks ago in which Carlton shot
and fatally wounded a Mexican by the
name of Gonzales, owes his life to the
nerve of the local police commander.
A few hours after the murder the
police commander was waited upon gy
a determined body of would-be lynch
ers from the American side, demand
ing that the Negro he turned over to
them.
"What do you wish with him?” de
manded the Mexican authority.
“Oh! we merely want to give a lit
tle demonstration as to how we deal
with his kind down South,” replied
the mob leader.
The Mexican commander, heavily
armed, glanced around to see if his
police were properly stationed, and
then replied. “There he is, take him
if you wish.”
Gloating over tneir anucipuieu
pleasure of mob torture, they made a
rush for the Negro, hut were halted
by a command of "Stop” from the
Mexican commander.
In a quiet voice he merely said,
“Take him if you wish, hut before
you get him you will have to get me j
and every one of my heavily armed
police. The Mexican government holds
me and my men responsible for the
safe keeping of all criminal* regard-j
less of race or color, and we are re- j
sponsible to the government with our j
live if anything happens to this pris- i
oner. Now take him if you wish.”
The latest reports state that Carlton
is still safe in the local jail, heavily
guarded, waiting for a fair trial be
fore the Mexican courts.
a plan of defense and protection, to
discover the forces, agencies ami or-;
ganiBallons which may he utilised in
that defense, to effect a united front
of the Race, and to devise ways and
means for full and complete eman
cipation.
"The attention of the conference
must tie focussed upon the following:
Race prejudice, legal discriminations,
economic exploitation, racial self
respect, religious awakcgiing, moral
and social betterment, co-operation
within the Race and between the
races, political action, industrial bet
terment, such evils as lyncihngx, Kn
Kluxisrn, segregation, disfranchise
ment, unequal enforcement of law,
peonage.
“A detailed call specifying time and
place will be Issued later by the com
mittee of arrangements. Every Ne
gro organization should begin now to
move in this direction, and the at
tention and energy of the Race cen
tred upon the successful conduct, of
this conference to the end that our
Race should at last achieve that im
provement of its status for Which we
all hole and strive."
Signed by—Aifriean Blood Brother
hood, Richard B. Moore, W. A. Dom
ingo, Otto E. Huslwoud. Friends of
Negro Freedom, George S. Schuyler.
International Uplift Isutgue, D. N. E.
Campbell. National Association fur
the Advancement of Colored People,
James Weldon Johnson, Robert W.
Iiagnail, Rlchetta 0. Randolph. Na
tional Equal Rights lauigue, James U
Neill, Matthlew A. N. Shaw, Win.
Monroe Trotter. National Rare Con
gress, Kelly Miller.
COLORED EMPLOYEE OF L. &
N. RAILROAD GIVEN GOLD
AND DIAMOND MEDAL
Nashville, Tenn., March 30.—Lank
Turner, an aged colored employee of
the L. & N. Railroad, was given a
gold and diamond medal recently for
his fine record of fifty years of serv
ice with the company. The action of
the company follows in the line of an
established custom that does not draw
the “color line” in regard to the em
ployees of the L. & N.
WIDE AWAKE TWENTY-FOUR
The Wide Awake Twenty-four met
with Mrs. Grace Flannigan Friday af
ternoon, March 16th. Memorial ser
vices were held for our late president,
Willa Mae Stewart and Julia Fletch
er. Mrs. A. L. Hawkins, chairman
of the program committee, had ar
ranged a very appropriate program
for the occasion. The next place of
meeting will be with Mrs. Lenora;
Gray, 1211 Missouri Ave., Friday af
ternoon, April 6th.
WOMAN LEAVES $1,000,000
FOR AN OLD FOLKS HOME WITH
NO RACE OR CREEO BA l(RED
Chicago, March 30—Associated Ne
gro Press.—Miss Emilie Jane Smith,
84, daughter of a former rich mer
chant of Chicago, died Heaving an
estate of $1,000,000 to provide an
other home for the aged both men
and women, in Chicago. One of the
distinct provisions of the will is that
there shall be no distinction on ac
count of race, color or creed.
From Nebraska to Arkansas and Back
Experiences and Observations of the Editor on Trip to Southland
Where He Saw Many Things of Interest
(Continued from last week.)
The speaker who accosted me said:
“My name is Stewart. I am sorry I
am late. I promised Bishop Demby
last night that I’d be sure to meet
you and take you to his house.”
“Well, you’ve met me all right,
haven’t you? I wasn’t worried. I
knew that the Bishop was either out
of town, or perhaps detained by a
service, this being the Feast of the
Purification, and that either he or
some one else would show up soon,
and if they didn’t I’d call a taxi or
inquire about a street car and find
my way there. We westerners, you
know, are not very easily lost.”
He took my bags, and soon I was
in his car speeding rapidly towards
the home of my host.
Mr. Stewart is an enterprising man
who operates a line of taxis. He
bears the reputation of being reliable
and dependable and so is always kept
busy.
In the course of our pleasant con
versation as we rode on he said, "I
call myself ‘Bishop Demby’s chauf
feur’ because whenever he needs a
car he calls me, and that is quite
frequently.”
Speaking of Stewart reminds me
that I noticed quite a number of col
ored men operating taxis. I asked
him.
“Do the taxi lines operated here by
the white people accommodate our
people ?”
“Not much,” he replied, “Some of
them will, but not as a rule. They’ll
l.aul your baggage, but not you.”
“That’s mighty consistent,” I laugh
ed. “And are our people chumps
enough to pay them for hauling their
baggage and not them?” I asked.
“A few of them are, hut not many.
And they soon learn. And besides,
since we have our own taxi lines,
which can give good service, they do
not have to put up with it. Some of
our cars may not be as fancy or as
stylish as the other fellow’s but they
will get you where you want to go.”
I learned much more of interest
from my conversation with “Bishop
Demby’s chauffeur.
And speaking of chauffeurs and
cars, I would like to make a sugges
tion to the good people of Little Rock
and other points in Arkansas, to see to
it that Bishop Demby has a car of his
own. I am very sure that he could
learn to be his own chauffeur. Stew
art would lose his job under these
circumstances, but I am sure he
would not mind this a bit. A car
would be of real sendee to the Bish
op Suffragan of Arkansas, not for
"joy riding,” he’s too busy for that,
hut in making visitations from place
to place throughout the jurisdiction,
i am quite interested to learn if any
Arkansite, Texan or Oklahoman, for
all of these states are included in his
jurisdiction, wall take the hint.
We rode through attractive and
W'ell paved streets past the Capitol,
for as you know, Little Rock is the
capital of Arkansas,—and well kept
residence districts on our way to
“Bishopstead,” or “Bishoptowe,” or
"Bishopthorpe,” or “Bishopcroft,” or
merely the Bishops House. Most
bishops call their houses (not) after
their own names, but by some such
name as I have here quoted. I am
not sure, but I think Bishop Demby
simply calls his the “Bishop’s House,”
but any of these other names would
be highly appropriate. No name,
however high sounding it might be,
could by so much as one jot or tittle
adil to the genuine hospitality and
gracious welcome which awaits one
fortunate enough to be a guest in
this cultured Christian home. But I
anticipate.
The driver turned off a paved
street into an unpaved street. Know
ing the “ancient custom” to neglect
paving and lighting facilities in dis
tricts inhabited by colored folk, even
though they pay their portion of the
taxes, I judged that we were now in
a “Negro Colony” or district. My
conjecture was right. A ride of a
couple of blocks brought us to a large
and attractive frame dwelling, on the
corner of Cross and Nineteenth street.
The grounds indicated care. The res- |
idence showed that its occupants or
owners believed in the decorative and
preservative value of paint and in
keeping the property in good repair.
This was the home of my friend of j
many years’ standing. Bishop and i
Mrs. Demby were standing on the ver
andah or porch, we call them up here,
but “gallery” they call them “down;
yander,”—smiling a gracious welcome, I
as preceding the “chauffeur” I as
cended the steps.
(Continued next week.)
KAKE CHARGES ALLEGED
USED TO HOLD MEN
Klbertnn, Ga., March 30.—Informa
tion to tho effect that colored men in
northern cities were receiving letters
telling them that they were wanted
in southern cities, is being invosttigat
ed by Sheriff Jack Heley, who says
that the men, lured away, were vic
tims of a “blackmailing system”,
I \ DI STRI \l, SCHOOL
DESTROYED BY BLAZE
Montgomery, Ala., March 30—Fire
in the populous colored district Wed
nesday night destroyed the Mont
gomery Industrial School, causing a
loss of more than $300,000. More than
300 students were in the school at
the time, but all escaped unhurt.
SACRED DRAMA AT ST.
JOHN’S A. M. E. CHURCH
A sacred drama, “The First Easter”
will be given at St. John’s A. M. E.
Church, Easter Sunday, at 7:30 p. m.
The following persons comprise the
cast of characters: Messrs. Jno. Wood,
Ira Wood, H. L. Preston, Mrs. I. L.
McPherson and Misses Mollie Moore,
Bobbie Turner and Mildred Turner.
The drama will be heightened in its
various phases by appropriate music
from the sacred oratorios rendered by
St. John’s choir largely augmented by
additional voices. Everybody is cor
dially invited to attend.
WOMAN HELD FOR
FORGING VETERAN’S
GOVERNMENT CHECKS
Washington, D. f'., March 30—Pres
ton News Service.—Mrs. Margaret It.
Buchanan, former private secretary
to Representative Kendall of Penn
sylvania, was held for grand Jury on
charges of having forged endorse
ments on three veterans bureau
checks payable to Mrs. Martha War
fie.ld, whose son died oversea* dur
ing tho World War. These checks
aggregated $1,000, and wore drawn
to the order of Mrs. Warfield who
was a servant in Mrs. Buchanan’s
home.
Ulysses Jackson, of Boston, Mass.,
has arrived in the city to visit his sis
ter, Mrs. C. C. Trent. His stay is in
definite.
REDDING WINS
ORATOR S PRIZE AT
BROWNS UNIVERSITY
Young Colored Lad From Wilmington
Defeats Several Worthy Op|M»n
ents Before Huge Crowd
Of Auditors
PRIZE OF $100 AND MEDAL
Winner Will Also he Commencement
Day Orator in June, Which is
A Highly Coveted
Honor
Providence, R. L, Mar. 30.—I>ouis
Lorenzo Redding, a senior at Brown
university, won th>- Gaston prize med
al contest in oratory in Manning Hall
recently before tin- largest crowd that
has ever gathered to listen to the an
nual event.
Mr. Redding’s ibject was “Booker
T. Washington” and the judges, Pro
fessors Benjamin C. Clough and Rob
ert McB. Mitchell ml Boland M.(looti
n'ch were unanimous. The other con
testants were John Andrew Wilson,
who spoke on “Theodore Roosevelt,”
and David Alan Midgley, who gave
his views on the Kansas Court of In
dustrial Relations.”
The Gaston me lal and a purse of
$100 went to Mr. Redding, but there
is still a greater honor that goes to
the winner. On Wednesday, June 20,
Redding will be one of the speakers
at the 155th annual commencement in
the First Baptist Meeting House.
Speaking with a mellowness of tone
and enunciating perfectly, Redding
told of conditions pertaining to the
Negro with the final abolition o1
American slavery in 1865, and of the
splendid and beneficial work thal
Booker Washington attempted.
"It Is a remarkable demonstratior
of persona.) greamees that the man
born without patrimony or name
should leave a vast heritage, the con
tents of which is not diminished, bul
magnified by being shared amonf
thousands."
Young Redding was personally con
gratulated by President W. H. Fauna
and invited to meet in a conferenci
with him in the near future.
Last year Brown university got sonn
unpleasant publicity when it barm
i the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity from
! setting up a chapter there. The chap
ter was set up, however, in the city
■ of Providence and young Redding if
I one of the members.
SOCIALIST TO CAMPAIGN
AMONG NEGRO YOUTH
New York City, March 30.—The
convention of the Young People’s So
cialist League at their closing session
at 227 East 84th Street, voted to be
gin a Socialist campaign among Ne
gro boys and girls in the schools and
factories of New York. They intend
to include them either in circles of
white members on a basis of strict
equality, or to allow them to form sep
arate groups, if it is thought advis
able. A Harlem circle is expected to
be formed within the next two weeks.
Instructions have been given to pro
ceed at once with the organization in
all the public high schools and to
distribute literature explaining the
principles and purposes of Socialism.
Efforts are to be made first in the
schools which have a large number of
children of the working classes, such
as the DeWitt Clinton and Stuyvesant
high schools.
A fight was anticipated as a result
of this move, for there were present
as visitors in some of the later ses
sions of the cinventiin, the president
and executive secretary if the Nation
al Security League. They told re
porters that they had come to see how
the organization was run and to get
information to combat the member
ship drive in the schools.
, RACE PREJUDICE IS
SCORED IIY BISHOP
Columbus, O., March 30.—Race prej
udice and race hatred were scored
by Bishop William P. Anderson, Cin
cinnati, in the opening address of the
annual meeting of the Methodist Epis
copal church.
“No Christian can nurture the sin
of race prejudice and race hatred,”
said the bishop.
The Rev. D. M. McQueen, State
Grandmaster of the Mosaic Templars
of America, returned Sunday morning
from Little Rock, Ark., where he had
been on business for the order. He
' reports a pleasant trip and is enthu
siastic over the work and prospects
of this great fraternal organization.
N. A. A. C. P. NOTES
A large audience greeted Cong.
Willis G. Sears last Sunday at Grove
M. E. church, where he spoke on the
subject, “Citizens’ Duty.” The address
was timely and full of good whole
some advice. All who were fortunate
in hearing the Congressman declared
it a rare intellectual treat.
Mr. Walter F. White, our assistant
Field Secretary, will be here on the
15th of April. Later we are expect
ing a visit from Congressman Dyer,
father of the Dyer Anti Lynch bill.
Omaha is expected to give our branch
a membership of at least 1,000 before
June 1st. Are you one of the sup
porters or slackers? $1.00 a year
membership, and large returns guar
anteed.
URBAN LEAGUE
OFFICERS TOURING
THE NORTH
President W'ood and Secretary Jones
Visiting Several Industrial Cen
ters on Good Will Trip
INVESIGATE CONDITIONS
New York, March 30.—L. Hollings
worth Wood, president of the Nation
al Urban League, and Eugene Kinckle
Jones, its executive secretary, are vis
iting cities of the north and west in
the interest of better relations be
tween the races and larger industrial
opportunities for Negro working men.
They left New York City on March
15 and made their first stop in Pitts
burgh where they visited industrial
plants and held conferences with lead
ing white and colored citizens in the
interest of the social welfare of Ne
groes along the lines of the League’s
improvement program. From Pitts
burgh their itinerary comprirsed Col
umbus, O.; Louisville, St. Louis, Kan
sas City, Missouri; and Kansas City,
Kansas; Chicago, Detroit, Toledo,
Cleveland, and Buffalo.
The increasing migration to the
North of Negroes from the South and
the attendant problem of health, hous
ing, recreation and industry which the
new adjustment needs entail render
this a most opportune time for such
a trip. It is generally conceded that
Mr. Wood, though a white man, is
most sympathetic with the Negro’s
claim for equal opportunity and has
an unusual understanding of the Ne
gro’s point of view in his efforts to
attain the higher things of life.
Mr. Wood is of Quaker parentage, a
lawyer by profession, and is serving
on the Board of Directors of many
educational institutions and liberal
movements.
Mr. Jones has been executive secre
tary of the Urban League for twelve
years. The League is now located in
forty cities and spent $250,000 last
year in promoting its activities.
DUNBAR SOCIETY
WINS AT HAMPTON
Administration Ship Subsidy Bill
Wins One Victory in School If
Not in Senate
AWARDS FOR PRIZE ESSAYS
Hampton, Va., Mar. 30.—The an
nual Adams Prize Debate on “Re
solved: That the Administration Ship
Subsidy Bill Should be Passed by the
Congress, recently held in Ogden Hall,
Hampton Institute, was won by the
affirmative team of the Dunbar Lit
erary Society, consisting of Thomas
W. Young, Norfolk, Va., Thomas H.
Shields, Jr., Charles City, Va., and
Edwin S. Tate, Charlotte, N. C.
These men received gold medals at
the hands of the presiding officer,
Elbridge L Adams of New York, a
well-known lawyer, who for thirteen
years has given medals to the Hamp
ton winners in the annual debate and
in the annual essay contest.
The negative side of the debate was
nah, Ga., Clarence H. Richmond, Sa
presented by D. Coaken Jones, Savan
lem, Va., and Paul W. O. Cardoso,
Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa.
The judges were John Weymouth,
Hampton, Va., W. R. Walker, New
port News, Va., and Rev. Dr. R. H.
Bowling, Norfolk.
Mr. Adams announced the following
winners in the essay contest: Gold,
John T. Jones, Montgomery, Ala.
“Military Training in Secondary
Schools;” silver, Wesley D. Elam, Wa
verly, Va., “Needs of My Communi
ty;” bronze, Charles L. Cooper, Har
risburg, Pa., “Electricity Our Great
Servant.”
BISHOP SHAYLER
CONFIRMS LARGE
CLASSOF ADULTS
Palm Sunday Observed With Impres
sive Services And Large Congre
gations at the Church of St.
Philip the Deacon
DAILY PROGRESS IS URGED
Christian Life is One of Daily Growth
Not Spontaneous Righteousness
Bishop Tells Members of
Class
Palm Sunday, which ushers in Holy
Week, was observed with impressive
services and large congregations at
the Episcopal Church of St. Philip the
Deacon. The chancel was simply, but
artistically decorated with palms. The
Altar vases contained tulips and rosea
provided by the altar guild and by
Mrs. M. L. Wilson. The choir, ac
cording to custom, carried palm
branches in procession.
The first service of the day was the
usual Mass or celebration of the Holy
Eucharist with the blessing of the
palms at half past seven o’clock. This
was followed at ten o’clock by the
regular session of the Church school,
which was largely attended. The chil
dren were catechised on the meaning
of the day and palm crosses were dis
tributed.
At ] 1 o’loek the church was com
fortably filled by the congregation.
The pastor preached from the Epistle
for the day upon "Christ-mindedness”,
stressing as its essential factors, hu
mility, unselfishness and self-sacri
fice. For the offertory the choir and
congregation joined in singing most
heartily the beautiful Story of the
CroBs, the solo, "The Appeal Prom
the Cross,” being sung most effect
ively and touchingly by Mr. Bimey
B. Cowin. Palms were also distributed
at the close of this service.
At two o clock in the afternoon the
Sacrament of Holy Baptism was ad
ministered to Josiah Brown, one of
the candidates for confirmation.
At five o’clock the church was
filled to overflowing, many persons
being compelled to stand when Bish
op Shayler made his annual visitation
for Confirmation. The long proces
sion consisting of the vested choir,
and the members of the confirmation
class, the women in white and wear
ing long white veils and all carrying
palm branches, made a beautiful and
impressive sight as they marched up
the aisle singing the ancient hymn of
St. Theodulph, written in the year
800, “All Glory, Laud and Honor to
Thee, Redeemer, King.” During the
singing of the hymn, “Thine, Forever,
God of Love,” the class came to the
chancel rail where they were present
ed to Bishop Shayler by the Rev.
John Albert Williams, priest of the
parish. The “Veni Creator, Spiritus”
was sung, followed by the solemn act
of The Laying of Hands with the ru
brical words, prayer and benediction.
Bishop Shayler’s personal charge to
the candidates made a deep impres
sion not only upon the members of
the class, but upon the whole congre
gation, as did also his eloquent and
instructive sermon on The Message
of Palm Sunday. He based his charge
to the confirmees upon two words
taken from the prayer said as the
Bishop lays his hands upon the head
of each kneeling candidate: “Defend,
O Lord, this Thy child with Thy
Heavenly grace that he may continue
Thine forever and daily increase in
Thy Holy Spirit more and more until
he come unto Thine everlasting King
dom.” The words were “Daily In
crease.” He stressed the fact that
the Christian life must be one of daily
growth, not one of magical or spon
taneous righteousness. This growth
comes by diligent and faithful use
of the means of grace. “Strive to
grow daily in righteousness," the
Bishop urged the newly confirmed.
Those confirmed were: Augustus
(Bendy) Bacom, Hula Amelia (Gay)
Broomfield, Josiah Brown, Nathalie
May Brown, Bimey B. Cowin, Vera
(Kimberly) Cowin, John Crawford,
Mary (Penn) Jackson, Ray Lee (Mid
dleton) Jones, Alfretta E. Merriwea
ther, William Henry Newsome, Hen
ry K. Perry, Severn T. Philips, Thom
as Scott Phillips, Mollie (Still) Ship
man, Ada Christine (Hill) Smith,
Charles Turner Smith, John Albert
Smith, Loretta Elaine Smith.
Two or three other members of the
class who were unable to be present
will be confirmed later. The class will
make its first communion Easter
morning at six-thirty.