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$2.00 a Year—5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1924 Whole Number 484 Vol. X—No. 16
MEDICAL OFFICER
AT VET’S HOSPITAL
GETS DISMISSAL
National Advancement Association
Makes Investigation of
Grievances of
Patients
REPORT SUUSTAINS CHARGES
As a Result of the Investigation the
Offending Official Is
Removed From His
Position.
New York, October 17.—Investiga
tion by James Weldon Johnson, sec
retary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
of charges made by colored war vet
erans in the government hospital at
Oteen, North Carolina, has resulted in
summary dismissal of Dr. Archie Mc
Allister, (white) associate medical of
ficer of the hospital.
The N. A. A. C. P. investigation
followed complaints received from the
colored war veterans last spring, and
Mr. Johnson found the following
abuses at Oteen:
1. That Ku Klux Klan agitation
has produced a threat against one of
the colored war veterans and a peti
tion asking for the removal of 2!) of
them to the government hospital at
Tuskegee.
2. That 26 colored patients were
segregated in one ward where there
was bad overcrowding.
3. That Dr. McAllister’s attitude
towanl colored patients had been in
tolerable and that he had let it be
known he wanted to get rid of all
colored patients.
4. That Dr. McAllister had forced
patients to pay for signing insurance
blanks, which is contrary to govern
ment regulations, and that Dr. Mc
Allister had accepted pay from col
ored patients in the governments hos
pital, threatening them to make them
silent.
5. That Dr. McAllister charged a
patient for the signing of sick blanks
and threatened the patient for re
porting the matter.
Upon completion of the N. A. A.
C. P. investigation at Oteen hospital,
Mr. Johnson forwarded his report,
supporteil by affidavits and other doc
uments, to General Frank T. Hines,
director of the Veterans’ Bureau, in
Washington. Mr. Johnson’s report
was acknowledged by E. A. Shepherd,
chief of the Inspection Division of the
Veterans’ Bureau, in a letter aaced
May 28, 1924, in which Mr. Shepherd
said:
“It is believed that the information
contained in your letter and in the
affidavits submitted will be of much
assistance in correcting any irregular
ities which may exist.”
The outcome of the N. A. A. C. P.
report and of the investigation con
ducted by the Veterans’ Bureau, is
reported as follows in the Asheville
Citizen in a special dispatch from
Washington:
“A letter from Dr. James Miller,
medical officer in charge at Oteen,
advised Dr. McAllister that the cen
tral office at Washington hacl di
rected a discontinuance of his services
after giving careful consideration to a
report of an investigation made of his
case”.
The Asheville Citizen’s dispatch
further reports that Senators Sim
mons and Overman of North Carolina
have been asked by southern whites
to intercede for the dismissed officer.
BREAK GROUND FOR
SI,000,000 BUILDING
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111., Oct. 17.—Ground was
broken Saturday by the Knights of
Pythias of North America, South Am
erica, Europe, Asia, Africa and Aus
tralia, for their new one million dollar
temple to be erected at 37th Place
and State Street,, this city.
DRAMA COMPETITION SHARP
(By the Associated Negro Press)
New York, N. Y., Oct. 17.—The
struggle for supremacy in the field
of Negro drama seems to have become
very sharp. Ida Anderson has a com
pany in the middle west, and Andrew
Bishop has two companies on tour.
All three are billed as Lafayette play
ers, each claiming that right due to
starring service in the original La
fayette stock company in New York.
FISK UNIVERSITY IS
OPEN FOR NEW TERM
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Nashville, Tenn.. Oct. 17.—The new
school year at Fisk University began
Tuesday with flag raising exercises
at the McMurdy flagpole. Signs
point to a year with an increased en
rollment and progressive program.
The address of the students was made
by William H. McAndrews, superin
Btendent of schols in Chicago. A num
ber o fnew teachers has been added
to the force this year.
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
OF COLORED WOMEN
WILLIAMSON, W. VA.—Mrs. Nina
L. Brown of Cleveland, national organ
izer assigned to West Virginia, ad
dressed a citizens ?nass meeting in
Williamson. At the close, the wo
men were organized into a Coolidge
Dawes Club which will immediately
handle the situation in Williamson.
McDowell county is calling for Mrs.
Brown. West Virginia needs vigor
ous workers to organize and inform
its voters in mining camps and rural
districts.
OHIO—Mrs. Eva N. Wright, na
tional organizer working in Ohio,
made an inspiring address in Xenia.
Coolidge-Dawes clubs in Ohio are
pressing forward in spirited cam
paign.
KANSAS—Mrs. Charles Chiles,
state chairman of Kansas, reports
twenty-four clubs organized in nine
cities: 5,000 letters sent out to voters.
Mrs. Chiles is touring the state.
MINNESOTA—The colored people of
Minnesota are located in its three
largest cities, Duluth, Minneapolis and
St. Paul. Mrs. Susan E. Evans, state
chairman of colored women, has or
ganized Duluth under chairman Mrs.
Mayme Merry. The check-up of col
ored voters found fifty per cent of men
registered and twenty-five of women.
Mrs. Rebeque D. Foree, working in
Minneapolis, lias thirteen precinct
clubs functioning under competent
chairmen.
WISCONSIN — A Coolidge-Dawes
club was formed in Madison by na
tional organizer, Mrs. Clara C. Mont
gomery. Mrs. Hattie G. Lewis is
chairman. Milwaukee women organ
ized with Mrs. Mabel Bailor, chair
man. Racine has organized. All of
these clubs are having group meetings
semi-weekly to educate the voters on
the use of the ballot.
ST. LOUIS—St. Louis has four col
ored women in the city central com
mittece who are co-operating splend
idly with state chairman, Mrs. Pearl
Ruby Perdeau who has planned an
active state-wide campaign.
TENNESSEE—A strong appeal to
Tennessee women for loyal and active
inpport of the republican party has
been issued by Mrs. Clemmie White,
Nashville, state chairman of Colored
Women’s Activities. This Bulletin re
ntes the past record of the party for
simple justice and fair play. It. enu
merates twenty-five or more federal
ppointments under this administra
tion together with the personnel of
the U. S. Veterans’ Hospital at Tus
kegee, and appeals to the colored wo
men to work as well as vote.
VIRGINIA—Mrs. Ora B. Stokes,
state chairman of colored women, is
sued a vigorous appeal to the women
■>f Virginia, especially the new-com
ars from the South, to throw off
their indifference to their suffrage
rights, and to >take their places
squarely in the ranks of the repub
lican party.
KANSAS CITY, MO.—'The coun
ty and congressional women’s organ
ization of Kansas City, Mo., is put
ting on a spirited campaign. The
listrict is thoroughly organized un
der fourteen energetic chairmen. On
the sixth, Hon. I^onidas C. Dyer ad
Iresed a monster women’s meeting,
Mrs. Dora Harris, chairman; Mrs.
Josephine Abernathy, secretary. Con
gressman Dyer stirred our women to
the depths of race interest and par
ty loyalty and they are resolved to
carry the Grand Old Party banner
to victory in democratic Jackson
county. Mr. Dyer also addressed
four enthusiastic mixed audiences.
WEST VIRGINIA — Mrs. Irene
Moats, chairman of colored women
In WeBt Virginia, has .perfected eJ
fine organization of six districts un
der competent chairmen, assisted by
two special organizer*. Their Job
Is a big one, to carry Democratic
Candidate Davis’ own state for his
opponent, Calvin Coolidge. Every
county and town 'is organized, for
group meetings of instruction and
inspiration.
OLD OMAHA RESIDENT
DIES IN CHICAGO
Mrs. Josephine Watkins, who for
many years was a resident of Omaha,
but who for the last few years has
been living with her daughteV, Mrs.
Etta Norrington, in Chicago, died
there Tuesday morning after a pro
tracted illness. The body was brought
to Omaha this morning for burial.
Mrs. Watkins is survived by three
daughters, two sons and several
grandchildren. The daughters are
Mrs. Etta Norrington of Chicago;
Mrs. Ethel Preston of New York; and
Mrs. Alma Jones of Omaha. The sons
are Wilbur and Victor Watkins, both
of Chicago.
WOMEN ORGANIZE
WILLI AMS-BARNETT
BOOSTER CLUB
Pledge Themselves To W'ork for the
Election of Member of School
Board and State
Legislature.
Wednesday night a number of wo
men met in the headquarters of the
Coolidge-Dawes club in the Jewell
building at Twenty-fourth and Grafft
streets, and organized a booster club
to further the candidacy of the Rev.
John Albert Williams for a member
of the school board and of F. L. Bar
nett for the state legislature.
The meeting was called to order
by M. F. Singleton, who stated its
object. A stirring address was de
livered by Dr. L. E. Britt, president
of the Colored Coolidge and Dawes
club, in which he stated that the time
had come *for contending for repre
sentation on the school board and in
the legislature and pledged himself to
use all his influence towards this re
sult. He was heartily applauded.
The meeting was then turned over
to the women, who organized “The
Women’s Williams-Barnett Booster
Club.” Mrs. J. Alice Stewart was
elected president by acclamation; Mrs.
Jennie Sellers vice-president and Mrs.
Grace M. Hutten, secretary. Father
Williams and Mr. Barnett were called
upon and each spoke briefly pledging
themselves, in the event of their
election, to give their best services to
the duties of their respective offices.
All of the women present pledged
themselves to work earnestly for the
election of their candidates. Several
brief, pointed and excellent addresses
were made by the women, one of the
wittiest and most earnest being that
of “Mother” Washington, who de
clared that the women were going to
show “our timid men” what can be
done.
Meeting adjourned to meet next
Wednesday night. All women are
urged to attend.
NORTON DECLARES
AGAINST KLAN
Democratic Candidate for Governor
Unequivocally Opposes Hooded
Order.
(Declaration)
J. N. Norton, democratic candidate
for governor of Nebraska, at the La
bor Temple in Omaha Monday night
set his audience wildly enthusiastic
when he declared his attitude on re
ligious liberty was the same as that
of John W. Davis, democratic candi
date for president.
At the beginning of his speech he
picked up a statement he had pre
pared and read it. It was:
“I do not intend to permit the op
position to divert my discussion away
from the real issue in this campaign.
But, so that there may be no mis
understanding regarding my attitude
and position on religious liberty, I
here state that my position and at
titude on this question is the same as
that of John W. Davis, the democratic
candidate for president.
“I am in favor of the constitutional
guarantees of religious liberty. I am
opposed to religious bigotry and in
tolerance in every form and by whom
soever practiced.
“I am not a member of the Ku Klux
Klan and have only such information
regarding it as is a matter of general
knowledge.
“If any organizaion, no matter what
it chooses to be called, whether lyu
Klux Klan, or by any other name,
raises the standard of racial or relig
ious prejudice, or attempts to make
racial origins or religious beliefs the
test of fitness for public office, it does
violence to the spirit of the American
constitution, and must be condemned
by all those who believe, as I do, in
American ideals.”
PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST
CHURCH MARKS MILESTONE
Pleasant Green Baptist church,
Twenty-second and Paul streets, ob
served with appropriate services and
exercises the seventh anniversary of
its organization and the third of its
pastor, the Rev. Z. E. McGee, last
Sunday. Large congregations were
present at all services. At 11 a. m.
the anniversary sermon, which was
preached by the Rev. E. H. McDonald,
D. D. pastor of St. John’s Baptist
church. In the afternoon a mass
meeting was held with several excel
lent addresses and reports. An in
spiring service was held at night. The
Young People’s organizations, and
other societies had their part in the
anniversary exercises.
In the three years pastorate of the
Rev. Z. E. McGee there have been 900
added to the membership of the
church and the sum of $42,000 has
been raised, the receipts for this year
thus far being $7,000. The church
has purchased three houses and lots
at Twenty-fifth and Decatur streets,
the income from which is used to
wards the support of the church ser
vires and activities.
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$ THE NEGRO’S CONTRIBUTION NOT NEGLIGIBLE
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A moment’s thought will easily convince open-minded
* persons that the contribution of the Negro to American
$ nationality as slave, freedman and citizen was far from
negligible. No element of American life has so subtly and
•{♦ yet clearly woven itself into warp and woof of our thinking $
•{• and acting as the American Negro. He came with the first
•}• explorers and helped in exploration. His labor was from -*•
•j* the first the foundation of the American prosperity and
;{• the cause of the rapid growth of the new world in social and
economic importance. Modern democracy rests not simply
£ on the striving white men in Europe and America but also
on the persistent struggle of the black men in America for
•s* two centuries. The military defense of this land has de
£ pended upon Negro soldiers from the time of the Colonial
wars down to the struggle of the World War. Not only does
j the Negro appear, reappear and persist in American litera
X ture but a Negro American literature has arisen of deep X
•{; significance, and Negro folk lore and music are among the
* choicest heritages of this land. Finally the Negro has played £
X a peculiar spiritual role in America as a sort of living, X
X breathing test of our ideals and. an example of the faith, X
v hope and tolerance of our religion.—Du Bois, “The Gift of *
X Black Folk.” X
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ELOQUENT ORATOR
TO SPEAK THURSDAY
AT DREAMLAND HALL
Attorney George L. Vaughn, Member
of Speakers’ Bureau National
Republican Committee,
Coming to City
Attorney George L. Vaughn of St.
Louis, who is a prominent leader in
the civic, religious and political life
of the great Missouri metropolis, and
is reputed to be one of the best ora
tors in the speakers’ bureau of the
national republican committee, will
deliver an address next Thursday
night in Dreamland hall, in the Jew
ell building, Twenty-fourth and Grant
streets, at a mass meeting held under
the auspices of the Colored Coolidge
and Dawes club.
This will be Mr. Vaughn’s first ap
pearance in Omaha and those who
fail to hear him will be depriving
themselves of a rare treat.
Dr. L. E. Britt, president of the
club, will preside. Preceding Mr.
Vaughn’s address musical numbers,
both instrumental and vocal, will be
furnished by some of the best talent
of the city. The program will start
at 8:30.
ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH
25th and R Sts. Phone Mar. 3475
O. J. Burchardt, Pastor
The conference year’s work has
started off very nicely.
The preacher will preach Sunday at
11 a. m. on the subject: “Hinder Me
Not.” At 8 p. m. he will preach on:
“What Will Pay In This Life.”
EASTERN STAR CHOOSES
BUFFALO FOR NEXT MEETING
(By the Associated Negro Press)
New Orleans, La., Oct. 17.—The
eleventh annual session of the su
preme grand chapter, Order of East
ern Star, was held here last week. A
new set of officers was named with
Mrs. Hattie Scott, Supreme Worthy
Matron, heading this list. Buffalo,
New York, was selected as the place
for next year’s meeting.
RUNS FOR CONGRESS
IN CAROLINA
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 17.—The Rev.
Jesse E. Beard, pastor of the Morris
Brown A. M. E. church, has been nom
inated on the republican ticket as a
candidate for congress from the First
Congressional district of the state.
There are more colored persons of
voting age in the district than white,
and, if they are permitted to register
and vote, the Rev. Mr. Beard should
win. Rev. Beard was born in 1870
and is a graduate of the Gammon
Theological Seminary.
INDICT MURDERERS
OF CHICAGO NEGRO
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111., Oct. 17.—Otto Ep
stein, watchman in a sacramental
wineshop, was accused of wielding
the bat which brought death to Wil
liam Bell in a mob outburst Wednes
day night, and Irving Roekowitz,
were held on a charge of murder fol
lowing the inquest into the slaying
Friday. They were identified by Al
bert Harper.
INSURANCE COMPANY
FOR NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans, La., Oct. 16.—(By the
Associated Negro Press).—The Dou
glass Life Insurance Company has
commenced business in this city with
H. E. Braden. Sr., president. The
capital stock and surplus is announced
at $26,000, more than half of which
has been paid in. j
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FIELD AGENT OF THE
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
TAKES OVER CATTERS
Arrangements Are Made For Great
Mass Meeting Here October
23—Vaughn Mill Be
Speaker.
Homer P. Phillips of St. Louis, field
agent of the National Republican
committee, held two conferences in
Nebraska Saturday—at Lincoln in
forenoon and at Omaha at night. Mr.
Phillip’s work is not to make ad
dresses, but to confer with a few local
leaders to ascertain local conditions
and to receive suggestions as to how
the National committee can help by
supplying speakers and furnishing
literature. About twenty-five men
and women were personally invited to
this conference, but only about half
this number attended. Among these
were Dr. L. E. Britt, president of the
Colored Coolidge and Dawes club; M.
F. Singleton, president of the Douglas
Republican League; Mrs. J. Alice
Stewart and Mrs. James G.Jewell,
active in women’s work; Sergt. Isaac
Bailey; Rev. Fred Divers; S. L. Bush,
and Rev. John Albert Williams.
It was decided to arrange for a
mass meeting in Jewell Hall, Thurs
day evening, October 23, at which time
the Hon. George L. Vaughn of St.
Louis, a member of the National
speakers’ bureau, will deliver the ad
dress.
Mr. Phillips while here was the
guest of Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Britt, he
and Dr. Britt having been class-mates
and friends of many years’ standing.
He left Sunday night for Denver.
M il A T TilE DEMOCRATS
HAVE DONE FOR US
(1) They have disfranchised the
colored people—taken away our right
to vote—in every state where they
had strength enough to do so.
(2) They have 'passed segrega
tion laws, and enforced them rigidly
against us.
(3) They have practiced peonage
systems wherever the best citizens
would tolerate it
(4) They have tolerated the lynch
ing and burning of our people, when
they could have passed laws prevent
ing it •
(B) They have sustained an in
equitable division of taxes for educa
tional purposes.
(6) They have passed Jim-Crow
car laws and forced us to submit to
them.
(7) They are now bringing suit
to prove the Fourteenth Amendment
unconstitutional which would dis
franchise every Negro in the United
States. I
STUDYING AT THE |
UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA
It is gratifying to note that sev
eral of our young men are availing
themselves of the privilege of study
ing in the night classes at the Univer
sity of Omaha. Among these are Dr.
Craig Morris, who is taking a course
in sociology and psychology; John G.
Pegg, who is taking English, public
speaking and business administration;
and Dwight Dorsey, who is taking a
course in science, literature and pub
lic speaking. It is to be hoped that
others will emulate the example set
by these young men.
GAS SALES BOOM IN 1923
AS FIELD OF USE WIDENS
New methods of utilizing manufactured
gas in Industry and In the home are re
sponsible for the large increase in the
sales of that product during 1923, accord
ing to a statement made by the Amer
ican Gas Association. It is estimated
that there were about twenty billion more
cubic feet of gas sold in 1923 than during
the preceding year.
Gas Is now used in more than 6,000 sep
arate ways, according to the association
and has Increased in consumption 1,000
per cent during the past ten years. In
order to keep up with the present de
mands for service the gas utilities fi
nanced a $460,000,000 building and expan
sion program during 1923. This sum will
e materially Increased during 1924.
OSWALD GARRISON i
BILLARD DELIVERS
ADDRESSES HERE
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Advises Colored Voters to Become
Identified With the Progressive
Party and Support
La FoIIette.
Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of
The Nation and one of the founders of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, spent a
busy day here last Saturday in the
interest of Senator La FoIIette, can
didate on the Progressive ticket for
the presidency. He was the guest of
the La FoIIette local campaign com
mittee. He was busy with conferences
and speeches throughout the day. He
was guest at a luncheon in the Bur
gess-Nash Tea Rooms at 12:3t) at
which he made an address. Several
colored people were invited and ac
cepted the invitation, among them be
ing C. C. Galloway, who is supporting
La FoIIette and the Rev. Frederick
Divers.
At 8 o’clock he addressed a meet
ing in the Swedish auditorium at
which there was an audience of more
than 500 people. He arraigned both
major parties as belonging to the
“Wall street bloc”; excoriated the re
publican administration for the Tea
Pot Dome scandals and defended the
policies of La FoIIette. There was a
good sprinkling of colored people in
the audience.
Following this meeting he spoke to
an audience composed largely of col
ored people at Columbia hall. The
Rev. Russel Taylor was chairman of
the meeting; C. C. Galloway intro
duced the speaker.
Mr. Villard urged the colored peo
ple to show themselves the free men
that Lincoln and Garrison would have
them to be by supporting the Progres
sive party and then by repudiating
the charge that the Republican party
owned the colored voter. He charged
that since emancipation the Republi
can party had done nothing for the
colored man except to feed him on
promises; it had made no honest at
tempt to enforce the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendment, nor to reduce
Southern representation. The time for
a revolt had come. To support the
Democratic party which stands for
lynching, Jim Crow cars, peonage and
like evils was impossible. The way
out was to support the Progressive
party, because it is the party of the
working classes and with this class
the colored people are and will be for
years to come largely identified. His
speech was loudly applauded.
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LINCOLN NEWS AND COMMENT 1
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Mr. Geo. L. Maston has been con- |
fined at home the past two weeks
with an infection in his eyes.
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Mrs. Ada Holmes who underwent (
an operation some days ago, is at ,
home, and improving. ,
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Mrs. Maud Gates has taken a turn (
for the worse. I
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Rev. M. C. Knight is attending an- 1
nual conference at Kansas City, Mo., 1
this week. *
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Mr. Roland Young, wife and babe ’
from Omaha are visiting parents here. ‘
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Mrs. Anna Christman is just recov
ering from a spell of sickness.
Mr. Austin P. Curtis of Alliance
was a visitor to the city last week.
Mrs. Gertrude Haynes is reported
quite ill.
Homer P. Phillips of St. Louis, Mo.,
traveling committeeman of the Na
tional Republican Campaign, was in
the city last Saturday.
Remember the Box Social at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mosley,
1335 Rose street, next Thursday night,
October 23rd, which is given by the
Utopian Art Club of Mt. Zion Baptist
church. Mrs. Jennie Johnson, general
chairman.
Rev. H. W. Botts very nicely enter
tained the Utopian Art Club at the
parsonage and church last Tuesday
night. Quite a crowd of the members
were out. Miss Evelyn Johnson enter
tained with musical selections.
Rev. C. R. Ross and his members
of the Newman M. E. Church are hav
ing a ten nights meetings in celebra
tion of all ex-pastors. Some layman
will represent each pastor. Appro
priate program will be rendered each
night from October 13 to 21.
Services were most elaborate at
Quinn Chapel Sunday on the return
of the pastor from conference. Rev.
T. J. Porter conducted devotlonals,
and sermon was preached by pastor.
At night the pastor and laymen gave
reports from the conference.
SEGREGATION AT
MISSOURI CAPITOL
MEETS OPPOSITION
blond Citizens Present at the Dedi
cation of State Capitol Build
ing Combat Separa
tion Plan
SPECIAL SIGNS ARE REMOVED
Thousands of Citizens Assemble at
Jefferson City to Witness
the Dedicatory Cere
monies
Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 17.—
“There is always something to take
the joy out of life,” is the remark
made by a colored lady, a visitor who
was here Monday, September 29, to
attend the dedication of the Capitol
building.
Several thousands, principally Mis
souri citizens, were present, fired ^ith
enthusiasm and patriotism. Aside
from the picture of the “Capitol beau
tiful” in their minds, the thought of
the pageant offered the most pleas
ing anticipations.
On an occasion of this kind, all cit
izens, regardless bf race, or creed or
religion, are wont to feel welcome to
the end that the full enjoyment of the
day might be theirs. .
A Ripple on the Waves
Everything seemed to be getting
along fine. All hearts were aglow
as the hoards poured into Jefferson
City from all parts of the state. A
nice sprinkling of colored people
mingled with the crowds. But cer
tainly their hopes were blasted when
it was noticed that signs were con
spicuously displayed designating cer
tain sections in the seating arena for
colored patrons. These were the
signs that troubled the calm waters,
and the little somethings that always
seek to “take the joy out of life”.
Negroes Get Busy
The matter was called to the at
tention of J. E. Mitchell by Charlie
Robinson and B. D. Abington. State
officials were sought, and the matter
was brought to their attention. The
appeal was made to Governor Hyde,
Attorney General Je6se W. Barrett and
Hoi. A. A. Speer, a member of the Capi
:ol commission.
Blames Demoerats
When Mr. Mitchell presented the
natter to Attorney General Jesse W.
Sarrett, the Iat‘er stated that the
itate officials were powerless to act,
is the matter of arrangements, and
he entire affair was in the hands of
l committee of citizens, headed by
: democrat, John P. Gordon. Mr.
Jordon is regarded as the leading
Juxter in Cole county. But the At
orney General was told that the
'apitol and grounds are in the hands
if the Committee of Permanent Seat
f Government, and that this power
ould not be delegated to any one
vbo would abuse that privilege.
Vhereupon Mr. Barrett gave his
onsent to Col. Speer to have the
bnoxious signs removed. The mat
er was called to the Governor’s at
ention, personally, by Mr. Mitchell,
vho told him it was an insult to the
olored people of the state, and that
he plea that the Democrats are re
ponsible would not excuse him as
:hief executive of the state. So, in
l short while, the signs were taken
[own, good feeling restored, and the
lay passed into history as an epoch
naking event in which all citizens
>f the state were proud.
Rev. J. S. Farley of Refuge Baptist
:hurch conducted his services as
isual Sunday. Much enthusiasm was
lisplayed.
Rev. H. W. Botts and Rev. Mr. Day
mve been holding services at the Mt.
Zion Baptist church this week. The
•esult of the financial rally during
;he month was $358. At the close of
:he services Sunday night the official
board of the church presented Rev. H.
W. Botts a nice hat in token of his
irduous labor the past four years.
The C. A. C.’s met in their first
monthly meeting with Mrs. Lucy Allen
and have accomplished much in their
fine art work. They are planning to
have a bazaar in the near future. The
club is growing rapidly numerically,
as well as socially. Two new mem
bers were added to the roll. The
club hopes to accomplish much in the
way of helping the various churches
and Old Folks Home. After adjourn
ment a delightful three-course lun
cheon was served by the hostess. The
second monthly meeting was held with
Mrs. Emma Clifton. Rev. and Mrs.
J. S. Payne of Qulndars, Kan., were
guests of the club. A splendid pro
gram was rendered, and the club was
favored with an instructive address
by Mrs. Payne, who has had & wide
experience as an organizer. The club
planned to have a Hollowe’en party
at the home of the president, Mrs.
M. Copeland. After adjournment a
dainty luncheon was served.
