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Negro Woman Donates $25,000.00 to Schools
ILLINOIS FAMOUS
BLACK REGIMENT
FOR IHAUGURAL
The Fighting Eighth Illinois Invited
to Participate in Military Display
When President Coolidge
Takes Oath
WINDY CITY MAKING PROGRESS
Great Mid-Western Metropolis Astir
in Business Promotion Among
Race—Expansion Goes
Steadily On
Chicago, 111., Jan. 30.—(By the As
sociated Negro Press.)—The Eighth
Illinois National Guard regiment, Col.
Otis B. Duncan, commander, may be
a feature of the great inaugural pa
rade of President Calvin Coolidge in
Washington, March 4th. The invita
tion is taken very seriously by Illi
nois leaders, including Honorable Ed
ward H. Wright, the five racial mem
bers of the legislature, the aldermen,
and leading business men of the com
munity. Mr. Wright, a member of
the Illinois State Commerce Commis
sion, and the recognized leader of Il
linois and Chicago politics, is taking
a personal and active interest in the
development of the idea, which was
first suggested by Hon. Emmett J.
Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard
university, and followed up for ac
tion in Illinois by the Associated Ne
gro Press.
The Eighth Illinois regiment is the
only nationul guard regiment in the
United States entirely officered by
racial men. It has an illustrious his
tory, dating from before the Spanish
American war, and including the
World War, where under direct corn
man of Colonel Duncan, the regiment
was in actual battle and closest to
Germany on Armistice day. An in
vitation has been extended, also, to
the Fifteenth regiment of New York,
and the battalions of Washington,
Massachusetts and Ohio.
Business Installs Abhott-Binga for
Another Year
The installation ceremonies of the
Associated Business Clubs of Chicago
was held recently at the South Side
Community center, when Robert S.
Abbott, president; Jesse Binga, secre
tary-treasurer; M. T. Bailey, vice
president; Ethel Gavin, recording sec
retary, and the board of directors
were installed for the year. The
ceremonies took place at an elaborate
banquet, attended by club members
and friends. A review of Chicago
achievements of 1924, and earnest dis
cussions of the program of action for
1925 was engaged in, the addresses
sparkling with true Chicago vigor.
The Associated Business Clubs, hosts
of the last session of the National Ne
gro Business league, has outlined a
program for 1925 that reads like “a
new town boom” and is being backed
by the wisdom and success of all the
leaders of Chicago.
Judge Geoge Highest Paid Official
Judge Albert B. George, of the
municipal court, Chicago, is the high
est paid racial official in the country.
The salary of Judge George is $10,000
per year.
A $1,000,000 Racial Bank Forming
Chicago will probably be the first
city in America to have a racial bank
capitalized at $1,000,000. A number
of leading business men from various
sections ol the country, headed by a
group of Chicago capitalists, are par
ticipating in this gigantic undertak
ing. The Associated Negro Press has
been informed by high authority that
already more than $600,000 of the
capital stock has been subscribed by
twelve men in Chicago and other sec
tions of the country. The venture in
cludes a mammoth skyscraper which
will also house one of the present suc
cessful business corporations of Chi
cago.
Chicago Developing a New Center
Chicago—aggressive, nervy, world
visioned—is developing a new busi
ness and residential section that
promises to “out-Herod Herod”. Old
timers recall when the center of activ
ity for the big “I Will' city did not
reach to Twenty-second street. Then
it went to Twenty-sixth street, and
for years it stopped at Thirty-first
street, around which center at Thirty
first and State, much of the history
twenty-five years ago was made.
About twelve years ago Thirty-fifth
street and State street became the
“center of the world”, and has con
tinued so. During the World War
hundreds of Chicago soldiers in
France wrote back home that “I
would give anything if I could just
stand at “Thirty-fifth and State
streets five minutes”.
Chicago has continued to expand.
Bombs, almost weekly, sought to ter
rorize the onward march. While they
made a big noise, did some damage
to physical properties, they did not
make a flicker in the mental pro
cesses of colored Chicago’s drive for
“life, liberty and the pursuits of hap
piness”. The whites put a “dead
line” at Thirty-ninth street. The
blacks didn’t even stumble. They went
to Forty-third, and captured the coun
cilman of the Third Ward. Now, a
new center has been developed, with
Forty-seventh street the cross-line,
and many of the whites who tried to
stop the march are now helping to
develop it. It reaches to the famous
Washington park, and contains some
of the most beautiful homes in the
world. It has fine schools and magni
ficent streets. Many of the best
known colored people in Chicago now
live in the vicinity. The synagogue
attended by Julius Rosenwald is right
in the center, and the city home of the
well known business man and philan
thropist is a mere two blocks from
the eastern extremity. Theatres,
banks and various enterprises, owned
by whites, formerly engaged in a
snubbing policy, have, as if by magic,
turned to a smiling policy; colored en
terprises are being scattered all
through, and Chicago lifts up her
head and sings the Johnson brothers
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REVIEWS THE GROWTH
AND DEVELOPMENT OF
THE OLD FOLKS HOME
Mrs. Martini Taylor Smith, President
and Founder, Tells of Struggles
and Thanks All Who
Have Helped.
ENLARGED OPPORTUNITIES
In an interesting paper captioned,
“The Close of 1924, the Beginning of
1925 An Opportunity”, Mrs. Martha
Taylor Smith, president and founder of
the Old Folks Home, reviews quite ex
i haustively the story of the growth and
j the development of the home from its
meagre beginning to its occupancy of
; this present eomfortable building on
North Twenty-fifth street. She paid
high tribute to the loyal band of wo
men who have stood so faithfully to
gether and worked so untiringly, de
spite many discouragements, through
the years and points to their accom
plishments as but the beginning of an
opportunity for larger development in
j the future. She extended thanks to
| all who have contributed in anyway
to the comfort, welfare and happiness
of the inmates. She expressed the
hope that “as this towering shade
tree”—the beautiful maple which
stands in front of the home—“provides
j shelter and shade to the weary travel
I ler, regardless of creed or nationally,
in like manner may this home become
i a great center of life and comfort to
i the aged and soon spread its strong
branches so as to reach all who may
be needing it.”
i She recited the activites of Thanks
giving, Christmas and New Years Day
which brought happiness to the in
mates.
Christmas dav, like Thanksgiving,
found the old people enjoying an ex
cellent dinner, the turkey and other
; supplies being provided, as usual, by
I Mr. John H. Broomfield, who has al
ways been deeply interested in and a
1 generous benefactor of the home.
There was a beautifully decorated
Chrlstmus tree with gifts for all, un
der the supervision of Mesdames Scott
and Hunt, the president unfortunately
being detained at home by illness,
which confined her to bed. The pro
prietors of the North Side Bazaar,
Mpsdarnes Bailey, Peebles and Miss
Lena Paul, are thanked for a generous
supply of needed articles. The North
! Side Community Sewing club made
and contributed aprons for the women
I and gave the men handkerchiefs.
I Thanks are expressed for this kind
i ness.
Open house was held New Years
Day, Mrs. Hunt donating her services
until late in the evening. The tree
j stood in its place presided over by
i Mrs. Jennie Scott and her committee
as on Christmas Day. There were
j many vsitors among whom were sev
eral present for the first time.
The paper concludes as follows:
“We who have labored are not forget
ful of the many who have aided in the
building. Without such constructive
help there would have been no home.
So we extend grateful and heartfelt
thanks to the Community Chest, the
Board of Trustees and officers for
services and donations when needed;
the pastors of the churches for ser
vices rendered and contributions given
through their churches; Doctors Hut
ten, Gooden and Wiggins for gratuit
ous professional services to the in
mates of the home; The Monitor, New
Kra and Advocate for free and help
ful publicity; to the Rev. John Union
and the Rev. O. J. Burckhardt for
conducting religious services at the
home; Mr. 8. H. Dorsey for a monthly
contribution of $10.00; Mrs. Marie
Woods for provisions during the year;
Mrs. R. W. Freeman for articles of
clothing; Mrs. J. W. Pinkston for the
entertainment given through her chor
al club; the B Sharp Club of Zion
Baptist church for the sacred concert
rendered; the North Side Branch “Y”
Girls; and the Girls’ Friendly So
ciety of St. Philip’s church for their
donations. To the givers and for the
gifts, we give thanks to Him who
sendeth all.
Mrs. Martha Taylor Smith, Pres.
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THE ASPECTS AND TENDENCIES OF THE RACE PRORLEM
Editor’s Note: The American Socio
logical Society which includes most
of the leading sociologists in the coun
try as well as the professors of socio
logy in the chief universities of the
country, wrote its members some
months ago asking what projects they
wished to suggest for presentation at
their annual meeting. Two hundred
replied and out ofthe 200 subjects of
fered ten were selected. One “The
Aspects and Tendencies of the Race
Problem” was offered by Prof. Mon
roe N. Work, of the research dei>art
nient of Tuskegee Institute and editor
of the Negro Year Book. It was
among the ten selected and is repro
duced below.
Tre third primary aspect of the
problem is riots. The thirteen years,
1912-1924 have been notable for the
number of race riots which have oc
curred. Some of these riots were the
most serious which have taken place
in the history of the nation.
Some of the immediate causes of the,
riolH were: The migration of Negroes;
an intensified housing situation ; exag
gerated reports concerning crime by
Negroes; the state of the public mind
with reference to the Negro and his
place; the disposition of Negroes not'
to recede from what they considered
a Just position; another probable
cause was that almost without excep
tion the widespread presentation of
the Negro in moving pictures was
either as a buffoon or as a criminal.
The fourth primary aspect of the
pdoblem is the notable growth of race
eonsciousness which has taken place
since 1912. Chief among the causes of
this growth are:
1. The general rapid economic end
educational progress of the group.
2. The world war conditions.
3. The contacts which Negroes
throughout the world have established
in recent years with each other.
Manifestations of this race con
sciousness are a growing race pride;
Increasing race solidarity and an in
creasing effort of the group to gain
for itself those rights and privileges
which are its due; the development of
race literature, including hymns and
poems which are national in their
expression.
The fifth primary aspect of the
problem is the increase in the efforts
(Continued from Two Weeks Ago)
for the betterment of, race relations.
There were first joint conferences
of whites and Negroes on race rela
tions where face to face they talked
to and not about each other.
A second factor is the presentation
of facts rather than expressions of'
opinion. Among the chief agencies
for the general dissemination of these
facts were the Negro Year Book, first
published in 1912; the Southern Pub
licity Committee and the Hampton In
stitute Press Service, and the growth 1
and development of the Negro news
papers as well as their recognition and
use by the students of the race prob-j
lem.
The third factor is tre growth of
inter-racial co-operation. Whites and
Negroes worked together in the world
war period. The result of their work- '•
ing together in the world war activ- !
ities brought them into a more help
ful relationship. Out of the spirit of
the war co-operation the after war
inter-racial co-operation developed. In
November, 1918, the Commission on
Inter-racial Co-operation was formed j
and an organized state inter-racial j
committee of whites and Negroes in j
most of the southern states and local
inter-racial committees in some 800
counties in the South.
Tre fourth important factor has
been the changed attitude and the
activities of the church with respect
to race relations. Some two years
ago, the Federal Council of Churches
established a commission on race rela
tions which is carrying on an active
campaign to assist in improving race
relations; an important feature of this
activity is the annual observance of
race relation Sunday, at which time
an effort is made to have sermons on
race relations preached in pulpits
throughout the nation.
The fifth important feature is the
increasing tendency of white women’s
organizations in the South to work
for the betterment of Negroes and to
bring about co-operation of white and
Negro women.
A sixth feature is the striking
growth of efforts to study the problem.
There are the rtielps-Stokes Fund fel
lowships for the study of the Negro
at the universities of Virginia and
Georgia; the Y. M. C. A. study courses
on the Negro in white colleges of the
South, the establishing in 1915 of the
Association for the study of Negro life
and history and the publishing of the
Negro Journal of Negro History; the
increasing number of courses on the
Negro and on race relations in univer
sities and colleges. In 1922 the study
of the Negro was made the home mis
sions study subject for mission classes
in the churches of the country. This
greatly stimulated the writing of
books on the study of the Negro with
the result that in the three years,
1922-1924 there have been twenty-two
race relations study books published,
five of which are for juveniles, and
seventeen for adults.
The tendencies of the race problem
in the United States since 1912 appear
to be as follows:
1. There is a tendency for the more
acute and constant points of race fric
tion to shift from rural districts to
urban centers.
2. The general advance of the Ne
gro has tended (one) to change their
status, (two) to change their outlook,
and (three) to bring them into contact
with the white group in a greater num
ber of ways. •
3. These newer contacts with the
white group tend more and more to
be contacts with the progress the in
telligence of the Negro group.
4. These newer and more numerous
contacts in some instances tend to
create conflict situations which turn
primarily not upon the ignorance, the
backwardness of the Negro group, but
upon its progressiveness, its intelli
gence. The agitation and friction now
going on as to where Negroes shall
live in cities, centers about the efforts
of progressive intelligent members of
the group to secure better places in
which to live.
5. There is a growing tendency par
ticularly in the South to endeavor to
handle the problems of race relations
by whites and Negroes coming to
gether on a basis of co-operation and
working together for the best inter
ests of both races. The general ad
vantage of this method is that repre
sentatives of both groups may meet
face to face and outline policies which
are of mutual benefit to each of the
groups and to the whole community.
TAXICAB COMPANY
DOES BIG BUSINESS
(By Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111., Jan. 30.—Directors of
the Your Cab company met last Thurs
day in the offices of the Liberty Life
Insurance company in their second
annual meeting. A remarkable report
of business accomplished during 1924
was given, one which showed the pos
sibilities of city transportation when
carried on in a large way. The Your
Cab company, the pioneer in the field
of operating fleets of cabs among col
ored people has 70 cabs on the streets
of Chicago, all of the celebrated Yel
low make. Its patrons are both white
and colored and it prides itself on giv
ing service of the highest sort A
gross business of over $335,000 for the
year was reported.
I
GABYEY’8 8HII* GOES SAILING ON
(By Associated Negro Press)
New York, N. Y., Jan. 30.—'Me
steamship Booker T. Washington, pur
chased by the Black Cross Navigation
company, one of the numerous organ
izations headed by Marcus Garvey, at
a reported cost of $100,000 was
launched here Sunday before an ad
miring throng of 10,000 watchers and
set sail at six o’clock for Philadelphia,
from whence it will go to Norfolk and
thence to the West Indies. Garvey an
nounced that most of the loan holders
to the new company are American Ne
groes and that the ship is expected to
make trips between the West Indies
and New York every twenty-five days.
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ANNUAL MEETING OF
NORTH SIDE BRANCH
SHOWS PROGRESS
Reports Tell Pleasing Story of Most
Successful Year in History
of the Organization.
The fourth annual meeting of the
North Side Branch, Young Women’s
Christian Associating), was held Fri
day evening, January 23, 1925, at 22nd*
and Grant streets. So excellent were
the reports of the work accomplished
for the year 1924, only expressions of j
praise and commendation hummed
through the “crowded house” at the
close of the meeting.
After an opening song, followed by ]
invocation ofered by Rev. J. H. Ellis,1
pastor of the Grove M. E. church, the j
minutes of the last annual meeting j
were read and approved. Mrs. Estelle
Craig, who presided, then called for
the reports from the following com
mittees: Health Education, chairman,
Mrs. Sadie Divers; Recreation, chair
man, Miss Gertrude Lucas; House,
chairman, Mrs. r^nora Gray; Girl Re
serve, Fellowship, chairman, Mrs. Se
nora M. Wilkinson; Service, chairman,
Mrs. Wm. C. Ricks: General and Re
ligious Education, chairman, Mrs.
Mortha Bell; Membership, chairman,
Mrs. Eva M. Pinkett; and Finance and
Garden Club, chairman, Mrs. Helen
Mahammitt. These reports were in
deed interesting, and marked clearly
the wonderful progress of the past
year, made possible only by a willing
ness to serve and a fine spirit of co
operation on the part of the different
women interested in this institution.
Tlie soprano solo, “The World Is Wait
ing for the Sunrise”, by Sietz, was
sung by Mrs. Venus Parker, and en
joyed.
Miss Edna M. Stratton, the execu
tive secretary of the Branch, heartily
congratulated the committee women
upon theid success. She urged all
women of the community to accept the
Young Women’s Christian Association
as “their own”, because it is a move
ment of young women throughout the
world and is not only Christian in
spirit, but hag a Christian platform in
its purpose. Then too, because of a
lack of proper understanding and co
operating among the Negro citizens of
the city, she expressed the desire that
the committee women would make
their fine spirit of understanding and
co-operation be as far rearing as pos
sible.
Mrs. Myrtle Metcalf, who has served
as a very faithful and conscientious
Chairman of the Committee of Man
agement for a term of three years,
was not able to attend this meeting on
account of illness. Because of her ex
treme faithfulness, of her never tiring
efforts, and of her sincere co-opera
tion, the members of the Committee
of Management presented her a lovely
picture as a token of their sincere ap
preciation. This was received grate
fully by her husband, Mr. W. S. Met
calf.
Encouraging remarks and words of
appreciation were given by Mrs. A. W.
Carmichael, president of the Central
Branch; Mrs. J. H. Vance, chairman of
the Committee on Colored Work; and
by Miss Elizabeth Howard, General
and Religious Education secretary.
The result of the annual election,
given by Mrs. Lula Rountree, is as
follows: Mrs. Wm. C. Ricks, Mrs.
Helen Mahammitt, Mrs. John Albert
Williams, Mrs. Belle Riley, elected for
a term of three years; Mrs. Eva M.
Pinkett, Miss Curaa Watson, Mrs. Min
nie Dixon elected for a term of one
year; Mrs. Anna Bowler, Mrs. Alice M.
Smith and Miss GeGrtrude Lucas
elected to serve on the Nominating
Committee for one year.
A lovely play with seventeen char
acters, entitled “The Feast of Na
tions”, written by Mrs. Senora Wilkin
son, proved to be a very enjoyable and
appropriate close for this meeting.
From all her fellow workers and
associates came words of highest com
mendation for the self-sacrificing,
painstaking and efficient work of
Miss Edna M. Stratton, the executive
secretary of the Branch, to whose
wise and helpful administration is due
the fact that from every point of view
the Branch has closed the most suc
cessful year since its organization and
looks hopefully forward to enlarged
service to the community this year.
The Honorable Oliver Randolph, of
Newark, N. J., was recently “let out"
as Assistant Unibid States District At
torney, ostensibly because his chief
was dismissed. Randolph Is a staunch
republican, and has a magnetic fol
lowing. Jersey republicans will hardly
be so near-sighted as to overlook a
satisfactory adjustment of the Ran
dolph case.
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FRENCH PROFESSOR
FEARS RACE WAR IN
THE HHITED STATES
Bases His Prediction Upon Superficial
Observations Made Upon a Recent
Visit to This Growing
Country
WHITE CIVILIZATION MENACED
Professor Muret Urges White Race
to Forget Old Animosities and
Unite Against a Common
Danger
Paris, France, Jan. 30.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—In a paper
recently read before the French Acad
emy on “The Nightmare of the Col
ored Races in the United States”,
Professor Maurice Muret predicts fu
ture race clashes in the United States.
The prediction is ibased upon observa
tions made in America during a recent
visit.
Professor Muret is deeply impress
ed by the fears manifested by Amer
icans concerning the future of the
white race. These fears must not be
taken too lightly, he thinks. North
America, the advance sentinel of
western civilization, is facing an
awakening of Asia, he points out. She
is well placed to watch the nationalist
movements of which the Far East is
now the center. Perhaps, he says, she
has a right to fear a collision. The
white races yesterday had not the
slightest doubt of their own superior
ity, the legitimacy of their world rule
and the eternal duration of that su
periority and rule.
Professor Muret is vividly impress
ed by the doubts of this dogma mani
fested in many places in the United
States—the press, conversations with
politicians and in books—where it is
hotly discussed. He says there are
many Americans who see with tragic
foreboding the invasion of the north
ern state of the Union by the Negro
population previously confined to the
southern states. Conquest of power
in Central and South American states
by Indians and mulattoes who are
sworn enemies of the white race also
causes deep concern, and there is fear
of a Japanese-Mexican combination,
he says.
Professor Muret finds a certain
amount of confirmation in the pres
ent-day developments of theories con
tained in a book published in America
before the war by Lothrop Stoddard,
“The Rising Tide of Color”. The
twentieth century, thinks Professor
Muret, will be a century of struggles
of races for liberation, perhaps for
world power hegemony. Bolshevism
encourages such struggles with all its
force. It would be desirable, con
cludes the professor, that the white
races should bury ancient hates and
antagonism between nations of sim
ilar race and should unite in a com
mon front against possible assaults
of colored races.
WATSON SEEKS JOBS
FOR NEGRO ASPIRANTS
(By Associated Negro Press)
Wasington, D. C., Jan. 30.—leading
race leaders are making two special
demands on the Washington admin
istration—an end of the segregation
of our people in places under Federal
control and more consideration to Ne
gro aspirants for office.
Senator James E. Watson, who al
lied himself with Ku Klux Klan work
ers in Indiana last summer, now is
pressing for Jobs for Negro candidates.
He has a contest for re-election in
1926 and his recent activities here are
elping him to reinstate himself with
the Negro politicians of his state.
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
MAKES $75,000 GIFT
Cleveland, Ohio, Ian. 30.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.) — Miles
Memorial college, Birmingham, Ala.,
has been made the beneficiary of a
$75,000 gift of the Rockefeller Foun
dation, according to an announcement
made here on the occasion of festivi
ties in connection with with the sixty
seventh birthday anniversary of Bish
op Charles Henry Phillips of the C.
M. E. church.
Rev. J. F. Boulden of Natchez, Miss.,
was the first man to petition Congress,
asking the right of franchise, and the
first emancipation celebration. The
petition was granted and the first
celebration took place January 1, 1866.
He made the first republican speeoh
that was ever delivered in his town,
and was a member of the tint repub
lican convention in the etate, which
met at Vicksburg, July, 1667.
