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“COMPANIONATE
MARRIAGES”
Some people, high in station
and supposedly of sound men
tality, are advocating nothing
less than prostitution, although
they call it by another high
sounding name, as a substitute
for honorable marriage. They
call it “companionate marri
ages.” Such association be
tween the sexes is not for the
establishment of families, but
for the gratification of sexual
desires. As soon as this com
panionship becomes unsatisfac
tory to either party, each is at
liberty to take up with some
one else. If this be not a form,
and a most vicious form, of
prostitution, we do not know
what it is.
It is argued by a learned jur
ist, evidently laboring under a
brainstorm, that out of such
“companionate m a r r i ages,”
permanent homes may grow.
Preposterous 1
No matter who advocates
such a theory as this, it is
vicious and immoral and will
be spurned and rejected by all
right-minded people. Honor
able marriage, sanctioned by
some ceremony, however sim
ple or elaborate, and entered
into or solemnized with an idea
of permanence, the establish
ment of a home and the rear
ing of a family, has been con
sidered by pagan and Chris
tian as the very foundation and
mainstay of the state and na
tion.
The sanctity of the family
cannot be too carefully guard
ed. It is endangered now by
many evils, but nothing would
more speedily hasten its de
struction than the form of pros
titution called “companionate
marriage.”
Despite many things that
may have a tendency to make
one bitter, keep sweet and sun
ny and you'll win.
COURTS ARE BULWARK OF
NEGRO, WRITES STOREY IN
MESSAGE TO CONVENTION
Indianapolis, Ind., June 23—Moor
field Storey, of Boston, former presi
dent of the American Bar associa
tion, and national president of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, in a
message read at the opening mass
meeting at the eighteenth annual
confernce here last night, called at
tention to two victories of the associ
ation won this year before the U. S.
supreme court as evidencing the pro
tection given to the Negro in the
courts of the land. Mr. Storey, who
was secretary to Senator Charles
Sumner during reconstruction, could
not make the journey from Boston
to Indianapolis, because of his ad
vanced age of 83 years, and sent a
message to be read.
"We have had fresh evidence this
year,” said the message, “that the
principles on which our liberty rests
will be upheld by our courts. The
attempt of New Orleans and the su
preme court of Louisiana to over rule
the supreme court of the United
States and maintain a segregation
ordinance was a pitiful failure when
its advocates came before the court.
“The attempt of Texas to exclude
the colored Democrats from Demo
cratic caucuses failed as soon as it
came to the bar of the supreme court
and the door was opened so that col
ored voters can take part in the gov
ernment under which they live, and
now it is for them to use their pow
er.
Negroes Should Use Vote
“Voters count. People who cannot
or do not vote do not count in mak
ing the laws under which we live,
and it is encouraging to see that some
of the political contestants in the
South are beginning to realize that
the colored vote is a force which can
be used and which is large enough to
carry many elections. Sooner or
later there will be white men as anx
ious to bring out and use the colored
vote as they have been to suppress
it.”
Aiken, S. C., “Plague Spot”
Referring to lynching in the South j
and particularly to the lynching in
Aiken, S. C., Mr. Storey’s message
said:
“The proud old state of South Car
olina found its governor, its courts,
its leading journals, powerless to
enforce the law against a group of
well known men in Aiken, who had
murdered three Negroes charged with
crime, of whom one had been acquit
ted, and two others were relieved
from conviction by the supreme court
and granted a new trial. The New
York World, after investigation by
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, • day
after day published the facts. The
evidence was convincing. But the
grand jury closed their ears and ob
stinately refused to indict the mur
derers. The country cannot tolerate
plague spots like this and every man
who values his country’s honor must
do all that is in him to end them.”
Asks Protection of Negro in U. S.
Criticizing the sending of fleets
and soldiers to protect Americans
abroad, while American Negroes are
not safeguarded in their fundament
al citizenship rights in their own
country, Mr. Storey’s message said:
“Citizens whom the United States
drafts into her armies, whom she
taxes, on whom she imposes all the
obligations of citizens, are certainly
in their own homes entitled to protec
tion against outrage. We are spend
ing hundreds of millions and employ
ing thousands of officers to punish
men for selling, carrying or drinking
liquor, beer and wine, and not a
cent to punish men for cruel murder,
not an officer to enforce the rights
of twelve millions of American citi
zens. The president without consult
ing Congress and without power un
der the Constitution taxes us all and
sends our soldiers as police to pre
serve order in Nicaraugua, but finds
no power to punish murder in our
own states.
“The Constitutional amendments
won by four years of Civil War
which secure the fundamental rights
of our own citizens are treated as
dead letters with the result that 86,
341 votes elect eight representatives
in the South while it takes 592,246
votes to elect the same number in the
North. The white voter loses his
own rights when he ceases to pro
tect the rights of his colored breth
ren.”
Peonage Disclosed by Floods
Mr. Storey in his message also al
luded to the peonage conditions dis
closed by the Mississippi river floods
as existing on delta plantations:
“The floods in the South have
brought out how nearly slaves are
the colored workers on Southern
plantations,” said the message.
“These conditions cannot last. Our
duty is to bring out the truth and
make our fellow citizens realize what
barbarism thrives under beneficient
laws which we do not enforce.
“Be of good cheer, my friends, and
stand together, fight on in the courts
and in public meetings. Look back
on what we have won since 1865, and
look forward with fresh courage to
the future with assured faith that
victory awaits us.”
LINCOLN, NEB.
The annual sermon for the Sir
Knights and Daughters of Taber
nacle was preached by Rev. H. W.
Botts last Sunday afternoon at the
Mount Zion Baptist church. There
was a fair turnout of the order.
Rev. Mr. Staar, an evangelist, has
arrived in the city and began a series
of revival meetings for Rev. M. C.
Knight at Quinn Chapel A. M. E.
church Sunday.
Lebanon Lodge No. 3, A. F. A. M.,
held their St. John’s services in their
hall Sunday afternoon. Rev. I. B.
Smith was the speaker. Only a slight
attendance was on hand.
Miss Agnes Thomas and Mr. Ray
Holcomb were united in marriage last
Saturday afternoon by Rev. M. C.
Knight.
Mrs. C. R. Johnson returned home
Sunday from Parsons, Kansas, where
she attended the annual session of
the Heroines of Jericho.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People will
hold their picnic at Patrick’s farm,
three miles north on Twenty-sixth
street Monday, June 27. Go out
and have a joyous time.
Henry Botts, jr., left Saturday
night for Omaha where he joins Mr.
H. L. Anderson, and leaving there
Sunday morning for Nashville, Tenn.,
to attend the National B. Y. P. U.
and Sunday School conventions.
Mrs. Jennie Johnson is reported on
the sick list this week.
Miss Izetta Easley of Lincoln, and
Mr. Cornelius M. Monroe of Kansas
City, Mo., were united in marriage
here Monday.
Messrs. H. L. Anderson, grand sec
retary, and W. L. Seals, relief mem
ber of the Masons of Omaha, visited
Lebanon Lodge No. 3 last Tuesday
night.
Painted Rocks Record
Where Indians Played
“Painted Rocks," in the Rio Grande
national forest, record the recreation
activities of Indians.
Many moons before the white man
Invaded that part of Colorado the for
est was the favorite play and hunting
grounds of the Indians. Here they
held their annual games In connection
with their hunts.
The forest is rich In Colorado his
tory. Spaniards traversed the moun
tains more than 200 years ago; Fre
mont forced his way through, and
rulna of his fortifications still are vis
ible at Wagon Wheel gap. Adventur
ers, trappers and prospectors thronged
the country, and old-timers will relate
scores of thrilling stories to the auto
tourist.
The forest Itself contains more than
1,000,000 acres and the granite back
of the continental divide has Jagged
peaks and vast canyons as It bends
and twists for 125 miles.
CofRned in Coconut
In Honolulu may be seen two coco
nut fire caskets, woven to represent
In effigy King Llloa, who reigned over
Hawaii In 1500 A. D., and hia great
grandson, Lenol-kama kohlkl. Inside
the caskets are the bones of the kings.
Such coconut fiber caskets, shaped
somewhat like an Egyptian mummy
case, are extremely rare. These were
found In one of the ancient burial
caves of Hawaii. The Hawallans
often secreted the bones of dead kings
In Inaccessible caves to prevent defile
ment by an enemy.
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Tips to Bosses
Don’t hire u man with light hair and
blue eyes for au office Job unless
you’re going to give him a great deal
to do and a heap of credit for doing It
Men work harder if they think they
are appreciated. Half au executive's
job la to learn when and how to praise
men under him.
Most of our greut students, phi
losophers and scientists have rather
dark complexions. Most of our lead
ers, pioneers and executives huve had
a leaning toward light hair, eyes and
skin.
To reach people you have to ap
pronch them as friends, not as police
men or teachers.
Golfer’s Alibi
On the St. Andrews links an en
thusiastic player with a most Irascible
temper was faced with a critical short
putt He addressed his ball, studied
the line, steudied hlm«elf carefully,
putted—and missed.
Instinctively he glared round but
the entire party might have been so
muny statues—not a caddie had
moved, not a player had budged. His
eyes roved the horizon in vain. No
one outside the match was In sight.
Then lie gazed aloft, while breath
less silence invested the scene. At
last the explosion came:
"D—n thut lark !"
Bees Dumb, Says Scientist
Bees may in- busy, but not bright,
soys J. B. .Millet^ a French scientist
who has been investigating their effi
ciency In gathering honey. Experi
ments have proved to him that the
buzzers are guided solely by odor,
and they often pass by scentless
flowers with stores of honey and go
to those that have a sweet perfume
and little sugar. He says that they
even try to extract honey from per
fumed artificial flowers.
Eats Fruit Tree Pests
The orchard oriole, sometime'
called basket bird, Is found in east
ern North America, over the central
plains, south to the gulf of Mexico
The tribe Is of sufficient numbers, says
Nature Magazine, to be usefulsto the
agriculturist as a destroyer of Injuri
ous Insects and their larvae, especially
those affecting fruit trees.
Spread of Education
Compulsory education In the United
States occurred f’St In Massachusetts
As far back us 1642 the selectmen
were enjoined to compel parents to
teach their children themselves or pro
cure teaching for them. The follow
Ing list shows the dates at which the
several states enacted compulsory
education: Massachusetts, 1852; DIs
trlct of Columbia. 1864; Vermont
1867; New Hampshire. Michigan.
Washington. 1871; Connecticut, New
Mexico, 1872; Nevada, 1873; New
fork, Kansas, California, 1874; Maine.
New Jersey, 1875; Wyoming. 1870;
Ohio, 1877; Wisconsin, 1879; Rhode
Island. Illinois, Dakotas. Montana.
1883; Minnesota, Nebraska, Idaho.
Colorado; Oregon. Utah, 1885-1890; by
1908 almost all states.
Ships and Tonnage
Tonnuge of u ship refers not to Its
weight, as Is often supposed, but to Its
carrying capacity. The term origi
nated in the time of King Henry VII
of England, who introduced one of the
first navigation acts of Its kind In
which the Importation of Bordeaux
wine in any vessels except those
owned by the lieges was forbidden.
The liquor was carried In huge bar
rels culled tuns, and, since then, the
cargo capacity of a ship has been
measured by tunnage or tonnage, the
modern term. In connection with war
vessels, however, the word refers to
the weight of water they displace, or
tlielr displacement tonnage, the com
mon way of describing the weight of
other ships.
Advance Information
Every trade has its stock of well
known yarns, hut occasionally a new
one does occur only, alas, in time to
become a classic. A certain well
known newspaper man was holding
forth to a group of writers among
whom was a rather famous novelist.
The Journalist was saying that he had
recently been engaged In revising the
obituaries held In readiness by his pa
per. Turning to the novelist, he add
ed Jocosely: “I’ve just been writing
you up.”
But the novelist, apparently, had
not been following very closely. Wak
ing up with a start, he asked eagerly:
“When Is It going to be published?”
Old Nick
Old Nick Is an ancient name for the
devil derived from that of the Neck
or Nlkke, a river ocean god of the
Scandinavian popular mythology.
"British sailors,” says Sir Walter
Scott, poet and novelist, “who fear
nothing else, confess their terrors for
this terrible being, and believe him the
author of almost all the various ca
lamities to which the precarious life of
a seaman Is so continually exposed.”
Scott wrote this many years ago,
nnd superstition has greatly decreased
since then.
Nothing Left
Little Ted, five years old, was con
tinually losing his pencils In school.
Seldom an evening went by that he
didn't come home In tears because he
had lost his pencils again.
To put an end to It, his mother
wrote Ted’s name on them one morn
ing. That evening he came home
weeping as usual.
“What's wrong?” asked his mother.
"They’re gone again,” stammered
Ted through his tears; “name and
all.”
“Bugs” Don’t Charge for It
Science, we are Informed, Is com
ing to the aid of farming by doing
a Job for him formerly done only
by a kind of bacteria. The job la
to take the nitrogen out of the air
and turn It Into a nitrogen com
pound which can be used as fertil
iser. The bacteria do a better Job
than that They put It right on the
roots of the plant and don't eharge a
cent—Dapper's Weekly.
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