PERSONALS
Fourth of July at Dreamland
Due to the fact that all the local
orchestras will be out of town July
4th with Desdunes’ band, the annual
Fourth of July ball at Dreamland hall
will be given on Tuesday evening,
July 3.
Ed. F. Morearty, Lawyer, 700 Pe
ters Trust Building, JAckson 3841 or
HAmey 2156.
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B Mrs. Otis Shipman and daughter,
i’i Madeline, left Thursday morning for
Cokato, Minn., where they will spend
the summer.
i Sell your property through me.
My plan brings the buyers. Richard
E. Wilson, Real Estate 206 North
Thirty-seventh street, Harney 4956.
—Adv.
Miss Alice Hunter returned Mon
day evening from a pleasant week’s
vacation spent visiting in Kansas
City, Mo.
Mrs. Anna Singleton, who has been
quite ill at the home of Mrs. Lacoq,
2117 Maple street, is somewhat im
proved.
Mrs. W. H. Robinson, formerly of
Omaha, but now residing in Chicago,
has been the house guest of Mrs.
Edgar A. Lee, 2417 Maple street, the
past three weeks.
FOR RENT—Room with kitchenette.
Modern. 2429 Lake street.
Mr. Thomas Payne, 2867 Cass
street, has been confined to his home
the past week with a nervous break
down.
Return of the Rinky Dinks at the
Grotto Saturday and Sunday nights,
June 30 and July 1.
Return of Miss Iola Burton at the
Grotto Saturday and Sunday, June
30 and July 1.
Adams’ New Novelty orchestra re
turned Monday morning from a suc
cessful tour which took them into
Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and
Nebraska.
Return of the Rinky Dinks to the
Grotto Saturday and Sunday nights,
^ June 30 and July 1.
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Carey’s De Luxe Coffee. Buy it
by the five pound lots. Forty-five
cents per pound. Better than the
best. Cheaper than the rest. Make
us prove it. Carey’s Naborhood Gro
cery. Open Sunday. 2302 North
Twenty-seventh street. Webster 6089.
Father John Albert Williams is
spending a few days with the bishop
of the diocese and other clergy at
Central City, Nebraska.
Midnight ramble and breakfast fall
Tuesday night, July 3rd, at Dream
land.
Among the 318 pupils graduated
from the Central High school, Satur
day evening, June 16, were the fol
lowing race students: Alger L.
Adams, Ralph W. Adams, Lucille Mc
Caw, Henry Grayson, Leeta Lewis,
Lucy Mae Stams, and Margaret Dal
las, an honor pupil. We congratulate
these young pupils upon the gradua
tion and wish for them much success
in their future life.
CLASSIFIED
LEADING MANUFACTURER has in
your vicinity three players, two up
rights, and one grand piano that
will sell cheap rather than ship
back, on terms of $2.00 a week to
reliable party. Write P. O. Box
365, Chicago, 111., Dept. G. M. G.
W. Robert B. Alexander, of Lin
coln, a registered, up-to-date barber,
has accepted the management of our
barber shop at 1002 South Thirteenth
. street. Men, ladies and children
served. Work guaranteed. Neat and
clean.—Adv.
This is to announce the purchase
of the grocery store and meat market
at 2806 North Twenty-sixth street,
where we will be pleased to serve the
public, with a full line of staple prod
ucts, meats, poultry dressed to order.
Prices low, quality high. Give us a
trial. Wm. T. Adams, proprietor,
Alyne Burnett, Grace Adams. Web
ster 5917.—Adv.
Y. W. C. A. NOTES
On last Wednesday, eight of the
Y. W. C. A. ladies from the North
Side branch responded to invitations
to attend a finance meeting and 1
o’clock luncheon at Camp Brewster
of the Central Y. M. C. A. Those
of our group attending were Mes
dames McGee and Greenfield, chair
men, and the following committee of
ladies: Mesdames Leland, J. D.
Thornton, Ardina Watson, Nora Mi
nis, and Mrs. Stovall. A real treat
was enjoyed by the ladies who were
extended every courtesy.
Mrs. Nora Mims, an ardent and
enthusiastic member of the religious
and general education committee,
left this week for an indefinite stay in
! New York City. This committee re
grets Mrs. Mims’ departure and with
the recent departure of Mrs. Fanny
Tomlin, who returned to Des Moines,
the committee feels keenly their go
ing for they both were invaluable to
this wide awake committee of which
Mrs. Hiram Greenfield is chairman.
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North Side “Y” Give* Large
Kensington in Dundee
The religious and general educa
tion committee of the North Side
Y. W. C. A. gave a large, successful
kensington at the beautiful, spacious
home of the chairman, Mrs. Hiram
R. Greenfield, 1006 North Forty
ninth avenue, in Dundee, Thursday,
June 14, at 2 p. m. Mrs. R. K. Low
rie, the general chairman of the larg
est social event of this committee,
gave everyone a thrill of ecstasy with
the unique and simple manner of en
tertaining.
The 66 ladies present were a pic
turesque group, seated all over the
lawn in shady nooks under the trees
and shrubbery, busily chatting and
doing artistic needlework in the in
vigorating air. The committee as
sisting Mrs. Lawrie was composed of
Mesdames J. D. Thornton, Frank
Cole, Louisa Scott, Ardina Watson,
Stovall, Buffkins, Nora Mims and
Brewer, who served a delicious menu.
Mrs. Lizzie Buford, Advo coffee
demonstrator, served coffee. A short
informal program was rendered in the
parlors before the guests were invited
to the lawn where through the cour
tesy of Joseph D. Lewis, a sufficient
number of chairs were provided for
all. The committee awarded Mrs.
Ida Mae Ford a hand painted cream
pitcher for accomplishing the most
needlework during the afternoon and
Mrs. McGee was awarded a hand
painted china cup for the most beau
tiful needlework. The day was ideal
and with reluctance the happy joy
ous guests, after lingering until the
shade of eventide, left with loud
praises for the chairman, Mrs. Green
field, and committee ladies’ charming
hospitality.
POLITICAL POWER DISTORTED
BY NEGRO DISFRANCHISE
MENT, SAYS DR. DU BOIS
Southern Oligarchy Dictator of Na
tion, Declare* Editor of *‘Cri»i»,”
in Keynote Addres* of Race
Relation* Conference
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Los Angeles, Cal., June 28—Dis
franchisement of the Negro in south
ern states has brought about such
distortion of political power in the
United States that a small white oli
garchy in the south is the dictator of
the nation, declared Dr. W. E. B. Du
Bois, editor of The Crisis magazine,
in the keynote address here which
openc the 19th annual conference
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Dr. Do Bois pointed out that the
barring of Negro citizens from the
polls in southern cities had transfer
red political power into the hands of
a small group of whites, as many as
from 80 to 90 per cent of voters in
far southern states restraining from
voting in the election of 1920.
Among the states where this absten
tion from use of the ballot was most
pronounced Dr. Du Bois cited the
following states and their percentage
of non-voters:
South Carolina 92 per cent
Mississippi -91 per cent
Georgia_89 per cent
Louisiana —.-.86 per cent
Texas . 82 per cent
Arkansas ... 79 per cent
Alabama - 79 per cent
Florida _ 72 per cent
The consequence in political distor
tion, continued Dr. Du Bois, was that
whereas it took 85,769 votes to elect
a representative in congress from Cal
! ifornia and 91,786 from Ohio, citi
zens in southern states enjoyed in
some cases ten times as much politi
cal power as citizens of the north, as
follows:
SOUTH
Vote*
State Per Rep.
South Carolina . 9,449
Mississippi 10,312 |
Georgia _ 12,394
Louisiana -.— - 16,733
Texas _ . 22,973
Virginia - 23,100
Alabama 24,107
NORTH
Votes
Per Rep.
Indiana -97,108
New York _67,338
Kansan . 71,278
New Jersey -75,333
Illinois . 77,425
“The barring of Negroes from the
polls in the south,” said Dr. Du Bois,
“encourages oligarchy. It enables
I cliques to nullify not simply the 14th
and 15th amendments but the 19th, (
giving the right to vote to women. |
And, finally, it entirely vitiates the
normal distribution of voting power
throughout the nation.
"It accomplishes this not simply by
disfranchising Negroes. The popula
tion in southern states has doubled |
and by reason of woman suffrage the
voting population ought to have quad
rupled, but actually, as a matter of
fact, the voting population has in
creased less than 50 per cent, show
ing that not only have two million
Negroes been disfranchised but more
than two million whites.”
Dr. Du Bois quoted from an ad
dress of Henry W. Anderson, a white |
politician of Virginia, who asserted
that in southern states the qualifica
tion to vote is so limited that gov
ernors and other state officers are
“sometimes elected by less than ten
per cent of the population of voting
age.”
“At the event of a presidential
election,” continued Dr. Du Bois,
“singular compilations are made. The
democrats can start out assuming the
votes of 11 southern states with, at
present, 124 of the 531 electoral
votes. They need to fight therefore,
for only 142 electoral votes to have
the majority of the electoral college.
On the other hand, the republicans
must leave out of account 142 elect
toral votes at the start and of the
407 electoral votes they can afford
to lose only 141.
“But if this is the plight of the
republicans, what can be said of any
third party? It simply has no chance
at all.
“As sure as fate some day there
is coming in the United States a poli
tical controversy with social and
economic roots which is going to open
suddenly the question as to why the
south has three times the political
power of the west and why New Eng
land, with its disfranchised foreign
workers, has more political voice than
the west. The protest is not coming
simply from northerners or ‘friends’
of the Negro. It is even coming from
the south itself.
“This is no mere question of parish
or section or race. It is a vast and
pressing problem of democracy and
civilization. We must decide, and
decide soon, what persons, what pub
lic opinion in the United States shall
rule. Shall it be the public opinion
of a small select group of persons of
Nordic descent? Shall it be the pub
lic opinion of the rich controllers of
capital? Shall it be the public opin
ion of college graduates? Shall it be
the public opinion of all adult Amer
icans except Negroes, Asiatics and
Latins? Or shall we try to make it
the public opinion of all intelligent
adults? Whatever public opinion
rules in the United States, it must
rule freely and clearly without a sys
tem of rotten boroughs and without
discrimination and cheating. The
clearing up and settling of this great
question is the vastest problem that
faces America today and we must be
gin with its solution now.”
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Mr. Ike Smith of New York City is
visiting his father, the Rev. I. B.
Smith here. Son and father had not
seen each other for about 28 years
Hence, there was quite a bit of re
joicing.
Mount Zion Baptist church will
hold their annual Fourth of July pic
nic in F street park.
Lebanon lodge No. 3, A. F. and A.
M., listened to a fine sermon by the
Rev. H. W. Botts Sunday afternoon
in celebration of St. John’s day. A
fair crowd was present and expressed
themselves as being elated by the
thoughts conveyed in the speakers
message.
About three auto loads of Master
Masons went over to Nebraska City |
Midnight ramble and breakfast fall ^
Tuesday night, July 3rd, at Dream
land.
Miss Belva Spicer of Lincoln, Neb.,
Mrs. May and Miss Mary Alice Green
of Falls City, Neb., and Mrs. Green
of Brownsville, Neb., have been the
guests at the home of Mrs. Blanch
Freeman, 2528 Patrick avenue, the
past week.
Midnight ramble and breakfast fall
Tuesday night, July 3rd, at Dream
land. /
Return of Miss Iola Burton at the
Grotto Saturday and Sunday nights,
June 30 and July 1.
Mrs. Ruth Killingsworth arrived
last Saturday from Chicago and will
spend the summer with her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James G. Jewell.
Midnight ramble and breakfast fall
Tuesday night, July 3rd, at Dream
land. '
Sunday afternoon to help Arbor
lodge, which has been newly organ
ized in the Nebraska jurisdiction, and
they report the boys very enthusiastic
over the undertaking.
Several persons and officers of the
Women’s Federation of Colored
Women’s Clubs are attending the an
nual meeting at Omaha this week. *
The Rev. J. Q. Adams of Omaha
was a Lincoln visitor Sunday.
The Rev. E. W. B. Curry of Spring
field, O., editor of The Informer, and
president of an institute, spent a few
hours in the city last week en route
from Denver, Colo., to his home.
Regular services were held at all
churches Sunday, but were slightly
attended, owing to bad weather.
Inez, older daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. Battles, spent Sunday in the
city, visiting relatives and friends.
She is attending the summer session
at the University of Nebraska.
Please remit for your paper. Now!
Mrs. Susie McNeil, sister-in-law of
Mrs. H. Battles, spent the week as
the guest of Mrs. Battles. She left
Friday evening en route to Pine
Bluff, Ark.
DEATHS
The funeral of John H. Jackson,
51, 3113V4 Webster street, was held
June 25, at 2 p. m., from J. D. Lewis
mortuary. The Rev. A. E. Miller
officiated. The deceased is survived
by three sisters, Mesdames Edna
Johnson, Pearl Williams, Pemey
Pinkett, and Maggie Day, three broth
ers, Messrs. Henry James, Henry, and
George Jackson. Interment at Pros
pect Hill cemetery.
SOUTH TO STAY “SOLID”
SAYS NEGRO LEADER
(Continued from Page One)
including men and women leaders of
the race.
Dr. Du Bois is the author of “The
Dark Princess,” “The Souls of Black
Folk,” “The Negro,” “Dark Water,”
“Suppression of the African Slave
Trade,” “Life of John Brown,” and
papers on the condition of the Negro
in the south. He was educated at
Harvard where he received his Ph.D.,
and at Heidelberg.
Working on Hi*tory
James Weldon Johnson wrote “The
Awakening of an Ex-Colored Man,”
two books of poetry “Fifty Years”
and “God’s Trombones” as well as
two volumes regarding Negro spirit
uals. Charles W. Chestnutt, contrib
utor to the Atlantic Monthly, is au->
thor of “The Conjure Woman,” “The
House Behind the Cedars,” “The
Marrow of Tradition,” “The Colonel’s
Dream,” and others. Dr. Du Bois is
working on a history of Negro troops
af all countries in the world war.
Omahans who met the travelers at
;he Union station included the Rev.
John Albert Williams, H. J. Pinkett,
Rev. E. H. McDonald, Rev. J. H. Gar
ner, Allen Jones, Dudley Wright, Dr.
J. W. Jones and Dr. J. A. Singleton.
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